Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

To begin, Gladwell provides solid evidence to prove that the more a person practices, the better they become at that activity. He provides readers with a study of violinists conducted by scientists. This experiment shows that the more the student practices the better they become. The student who practiced the most became an expert. Comparatively, the study showed the number of hours in which a student practices and how that number indicates a certain level of mastery. The key number in the study was ten thousand hours. Practice is directly related to how great a person becomes at something. Gladwell, explains these things in detail and with specific evidence to back it up. To add on, Gladwell states, "And what's more, the people at the top don't work harder, they work much, much harder"(Gladwell,11). This quote tells readers that to become great at something one must work at it, therefore proving that people have their own control over their fate. The author uses Motzart as another example in the story. He explains that Motzart worked hard since he was a child. He did not become great until the later years, indicating he practiced and practiced until he achieved greatness. Altogether, the more effort a person puts in determines how successful they are. Malcolm Gladwell conveys to his readers that humans have control over their own destiny due to

In the book Outliers, the author Malcolm Gladwell elucidates that people have to practice for more than 10,000 hours or 10 years in order to fully become successful. People can achieve more regardless of not being financially wealthy. Even though some people that have practiced for less than 10,000 hours did achieve their goals, the majority of the successful people have practiced for more than 10,000 hours. Gladwell states that, “they work much, much harder” (39). and that they have to want to stand out from everyone else. I believe that very successful people are lucky, and have talent, and are willing to work harder than everyone else.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote his book, “Outliers” in order to show his readers that it is many different factors that comes into becoming a successful person. This essay will be to inform readers on what the Matthew Effect is that was mentioned as a factor of becoming successful in Gladwell’s book and how this topic relates to the success of Donald Trump. The idea of the Matthew effect was developed from the Bible verse Matthew 25:29; which states. “for to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.”

Vince Lombardi, a great American football coach, and player, once stated that the “dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success”. According to Lombardi, hard work will get you to where you want to go, and many people would agree. In Malcolm Gladwell’s novel, “Outliers: The Story of Success,” secrets and misconceptions about success are exposed and explained. Gladwell was right in saying that “if you work hard enough and assert yourself...you can shape the world to your desires”, as evidenced by examples from the book itself, the successful career of Serena Williams, and my own personal story (Gladwell 151).

Velazquez, Jackie, Research Paper Many people believe that in order to have success in your future, you must be born with talent. However, the path to obtaining talent at your job is to work hard and test your limits to see what you can accomplish. Not everybody is simply born with the ability to work well with whatever task they are given. They key and answer to finding a job you’re good at, or even finding a job that people have had no past experience doing, and working with it well, is working hard to be the best they can be.

Gladwell’s first example was the success of The Beatles, who by luck were given the opportunity to play Rock & Roll at Hamburg eight to twelve hours daily during a time they lacked additional knowledge of covers and confidence on stage performance; then they became famous after perfecting their talent. Secondly, Bill Gates happened to have time and access to learn computer programming at a young age when the computer revolutionary era was still entering. He had more than thirty hours a week of computer time, and later became a founder of the Microsoft

Essentially, the topics Gladwell covered in this book include are, being at the right place at the right time, the 10,000-hour rule, timing, upbringing, and pursuing a meaningful career. Although all of these have been proven by Gladwell to be a major component of success, I do not agree with the idea of a particular upbringing will determine success. With this idea, Malcolm also includes that

Furthermore, Gladwell’s tone and style of writing throughout Outliers contributes to his arguments’ effectiveness. The manner in which Gladwell tells the stories in relation to each individual claim is brilliant. Not only is the writing tone of the author informative, thoughtful, and compelling, but it is also frequently conversational. Many times in Outliers, Gladwell seems to be speaking directly to his readers. The author achieves this conversational tone primarily by asking questions within his arguments. In The 10,000-Hour Rule chapter, Gladwell applies this tone when he asks, “What’s ten years?” The author is challenging the reader to determine what significance ten years has in relation to success. Unknowingly challenged, the reader searches for an explanation within his or her own thoughts before continuing reading. The author answers his own question, “It [ten years] is roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice” (41). Gladwell also uses a conversational style of writing by including a personal touch within the epilogue, A Jamaican Story. “That is the story of my mother’s path to success,” writes the author (272). With this statement, Gladwell is opening up a personal revelation to the reader in a way

While the author, Malcolm Gladwell, does not dispute that hard work in a necessary component, we learn that many factors, lucky breaks, and some coincidences all occur in making high achievers into true outliers. We also learn that many of the richest, most famous, and most successful people in

Since the around the 1980s parents have worked to make sure that their kid has the upper hand. Redshirting to help your children does not help but hurt your children in the long run. Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell gives many theories into why people are successful and what they did to be that way. He Tells us why Canadian hockey players born in the first three months are the most successful and skilled. He claims that this theory pertains to the American education system as well.

Think of something you are passionate about. Is it a skill that you are able to push yourself in? People are always told that with enough hard work you could become a master of that skill. Even without natural talent, enough hard work at a skill will eventually build up the ability. By constantly pushing oneself past their limits during practice, they can improve quicker than someone who has the natural ability and doesn’t try. However, skill doesn’t always equal success. As Malcolm Gladwell states in his book The Outliers, luck plays a large role in the ability to obtain the 10,000 hours required to become an expert in a subject. However, many studies and even the researchers of the 10,000 hour study have rejected the rule outright. I disagree with Gladwell that 10,000 hours is required to become a master, and that luck plays a much larger role than he states.

Steve Jobs said “the ones, who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” This saying mean person who effort and creative to their work, they can shape the world their desires. Person who want desire the world they need work hard enough and assert itself. In the Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell write 11 chapters about success and to become an outlier, people who practice 10,000 hours to become a success, people who have a different cultural legacy they can change their life and to become an outlier, and people who effort they can change disadvantage to advantage. Although Malcolm Gladwell assert “if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desire”, people can success their self, people who practice 10,000 hours than they can success, cultural legacy change their life and to become an outlier and when people effort hardly

Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell 's examination of what makes some people excessively more successful than others. These "outliers," as he calls them, are commonly thought to possess talent and intelligence far above that of the average person, but he challenges this popular belief by looking at the background of some notable outliers.

An Outlier is someone who stands out in a group due to their mastery of a certain skill and because of that they are successful. According to Gladwell not anyone can become successful; it takes the right circumstances and opportunities. Human’s capability seems limitless, and if we put in the time and hard work we can achieve our goals. We as a society love to think that a person may become successful and that we all have the same opportunities and chance of succeeding if we just work hard enough. According to Malcom Gladwell, the author of the book Outlier’s these common beliefs are incorrect and are not the means of a person becoming successful. The main theme throughout Gladwell’s Outlier’s is that successful

“There is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success” (Gladwell 18). In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell is trying to convince his audience that they misunderstand how people become successful. Many believe one only needs hard work and determination in order to achieve success. However, Gladwell complicates this idea by explaining that hard work and determination is not how people become successful and instead, it is all about the opportunities one is given that decides if he or she is successful or not. Gladwell uses the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos in order to persuade his audience to accept his idea of the process of becoming successful.