Gawande overall, states the importance of using a checklist in his book The Checklist Manifesto connecting to the problem of extreme complexity. In this modern world complexity can hit hard and danger patients for example, the medical field. Medicine becomes complex as there can be ways on how medicine is prepared or when it needs to be used. Handling complexity brings up a solution that splits up tasks and gives the tasks to different specialties. However as mention in The Checklist Manifesto, “But even divided up, the work can become over whelming (Gawande 20). This can get worst as team work and communication can be disrupted. The different specialists might be seen as a hierarchy which can worsen communication to the point where a doctor doesn’t follow a nurse’s suggestion for the idea that a doctor knows what they are doing. …show more content…
The idea of practice makes perfect can be inspiring to those who want to succeed. However Gladwell mentions, “That’s on a par with Bill Gates getting unlimited access to a time-share terminal at age thirteen (Gladwell 66). Gladwell mentions that the reason most of these people are so successful is just luck. Luck and luck where opportunities are just thrown at someone. The 10, 000-hour rule does have the right point to tell people that hard work does pay off which it does. But, according to Gladwell luck can also just be the reason for success. How it connects to problem of extreme complexity is that the 10,000-hour rule shows that practicing for hours can help someone become an expert on a certain field but the complexity of reaching to the expert level does take time but also opportunities which revolves around internships or other opportunities s that can lead go success. The point that complexity can be a barrier to those who don’t get a lucky opportunity, but rely on their amount of hours of
However, luck plays a much larger role than he claims. There are plenty of stories of homeless individuals with master’s degrees. One example is of Maurice Johnson, a 55 year old man who had two separate master’s degrees, and lives homeless in the streets of Boston. Johnson had the time and dedication to obtain those degrees, but even after all that work he ended up in one of the worst positions possible in America. Many of Gladwell’s examples about luck emphasize the point that luck was needed to obtain the 10,000 hours for their level of mastery, but the fact exists that the overall success of a person is also dependent on luck as well. Maurice Johnson’s father died earlier in his life, and Johnson spent many of his resources helping his ill, bed-ridden mother. Even though Johnson had the luck to become a master at multiple subjects, luck was still needed to put those skills into use, which didn’t happen for
Some of you may have heard of the four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. She blew us all way at the 2016 Rio Olympics, performing breathtaking skills no one has ever done before-one of them even named after her. She has dedicated her whole life for these very Games. As of today, she is the best gymnast to ever live. Simone obviously has a large amount of raw talent. However, her triumphs are because of much more than that; over the course of her life, she has practiced at least, if not more, than 10,000 hours. In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell proposes the idea that an individual must practice at least 10,000 hours in order to be considered successful. I agree with Gladwell’s claim that through excessive amounts of practice, in
After reading through the various examples given to support his beliefs, his denotation of success finally became clear. It appears that Gladwell believes success is based off how much work and practice someone puts forth to accomplish their goals. Gladwell even gives a specific amount of time one must sacrifice to fulfill their aspirations.Gladwell states, “ In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours” (Gladwell 40). Mozart’s devotion is used for support while mentioning the young age he had started practicing. Although Malcolm Gladwell's personal definition of success is legitimate, it still faces scrutiny from other
How many hours of someone’s life are necessary to perfect a skill? 300? 5000? Perhaps try 10,000 hours. In this chapter from Outliers, “The 10,000-Hour Rule”, Malcolm Gladwell argues that talent isn’t innate, but takes 10,000 hours to perfect a skill based on opportunity, talent, and practice. Throughout the chapter “The 10,000-Hour Rule”, Malcolm Gladwell effectively relies on logos--evidence from well-known figures and charts that show age similarities--to support his theory that it takes a particular window of time to offer someone the opportunity to practice for 10,000 hours to succeed at a skill. However, Gladwell ineffectively relies on repetition of evidence and failure to
Right away the readers get interested in learning what the then thousand hour rule is about. Gladwell reviews the lives of extremely successful people and how they have had success. There are many ways in which logos are used in Outliers. Gladwell viewed children in Berlin playing the violin and saw that kids having ten thousand hours of practice, were proven to be better at playing the violin, than kids with less than ten thousand hours of practice. He also took a look at Bill gates, which dropped out of college and started a very successful company, called Microsoft. Bill Gates had thousands of hours of practice in programming and other abilities learned through his short years at college. There are no shortcuts at becoming great; everything can only be achieved with lots of practice and hard work.
Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule is also an important element in a success story. Bill Gates, the Beatles, and Joe Flom all spent years practicing their trades. Correspondingly, the 10,000 Hour Rule says that expertise in a subject is a product of 10,000 hours of practice. In order to do well in something one must take one’s time to master it. Essentially, practice makes perfect.
The first rhetorical device Gladwell uses in “The 10,000 Hour Rule” is imagery. His attempts at using imagery are not successful because what he proves is “The Matthew Effect,” instead of proving that it takes 10,000 hours, and more than just talent to reach mastery. Gladwell mentions the 75 richest people in the world and points out that 15 of the 75 were born in the same country around the same time. “Almost 20 percent of the names” “come from a single generation in a single country.” These people were able to achieve massive wealth, because “In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history. This was when wall street was being built and when Wall Street emerged.”(Pg. 62) Gladwell uses no language to infer that these people practiced for 10,000 hours to achieve mastery of their jobs. Rather he proved that it is the timing, opportunities, and advantages make people successful, and not the amount of time they put in. In the 21st century world, Bill Gates is known as a pioneer in coding, and as a man who has made a lot of money off his career. Gladwell chose Bill Gates to prove his point that he was successful, because he has spent more than 10,000 hours coding, but yet again as the reader, it is quite obvious that the advantages Bill Gates had as a teenager led to his success. “Gates's father
What is the 10,000 hour rule? Malcom Gladwell uses this rule to help explain that
For the sake of making himself appear more credible, Gladwell cohesively uses anecdotes of incredibly successful people such as: Bill Joy, Bill Gates, and the Beatles. These anecdotes allow him to prove to the reader that he has done a great deal of research on the topic of the 10,000 hour rule. Gladwell tells the story about how a 16 year old Bill Joy discovered the University of Michigan’s computer center and decided to pursue computer science. Ultimately Joy “buried himself even deeper in the world of computer software” (36). Gladwell also talks about Bill Gates’ life and how opportunities appeared into Gates’ life out of the blue. This is singled out by the anaphora of the
Outliers is a book that studies the factors that contribute to high levels of success. Gladwell examines several success stories ranging from Bill Gates to the Beatles. The book also looks at how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule." This rules claimes that the key to achieving world class expertise in any skill is a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000
This quote shows a professional coming to a conclusion about his studies,“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert in anything”(Gladwell, 7). This statement from the text shows us how a studies have shown that if a person practices ten thousand hours of whatever they find interesting they can become world-class. Becoming a professional baseball player does happen with luck, you need to be devoted and put in the effort needed to get good. Another quote is,“the striking thing about Ericsson’s studies is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any naturals, musician who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did”(Gladwell, 5). The quote helps support the previous quote by stating that a person needs ten thousand hours of practice to be world-class because they haven’t found a person that has been the best without training as
10,000 hours is equivalent to 14 months, 60 weeks, 417 days, and success. Bill Joy, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, is an example of this, as he began programming his sophomore year of high school and continued in the “summers then the day and nights at his first year at Berkeley,” totaling about ten thousand hours (Gladwell 47). Bill Joy played an integral part in the creation of multiple computer programs still used today, and to get to that point he practiced programming. BIll Joy’s dedication to mastering his craft led him to work hard,
The sky's the limit. Posters in elementary and high school have written all over their walls to encourage children to work hard.Teachers and parents tell children that everything is possible if they just dream hard enough. As children start growing older, parents and teachers use more sophisticated words to reinforce the idea that hard work and effort lead to success. Even the saying the sky’s the limit, confines children into this box of unfulfilled dreams and bitterness. In Gladwell’s Outliers, he claims that if people are hardworking enough to use their mind and imagination they can change the world. Success is not what people make it seem.The way people think about success only harm those who are trying to reach the top of the pyramid.Plenty
George Saunders describes success as “a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it” This metaphor contributes to the understanding of his point that says that there is a real danger of putting too much focus in succeeding because it will take up your whole life. This is the only target people nowadays will focus on and therefore the big questions go untended.
Something that helped me realize this and also baffle me was the story about George Dantzig, who, after reading the small portion of the book, I just had to look up. I often thought that if one, or especially more, very smart people couldn’t figure something out, then that’s it it was over, done, impossible, but Dantzig sure proved me and probably a lot of people wrong. His amazing accomplishment showed me that anyone can accomplish whatever they want, as long as they work hard enough towards their goal.