Success In Malcom Gladwell's Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, a novel depicting success, provides different examples of how an individual can achieve success in every chapter of his book to show his audience that success, despite a variety of barriers, is in fact in our control. A very important chapter titled, “Marita's Bargain”, explains the flaws in today’s public school systems. He shows the problems with the solutions to fix them while showing the alternatives to the regular system such as the KIPP Program in New York. The KIPP Program (Knowledge is Power Program) is a new kind of middle school that selects students from less fortunate locations and uses unique teaching strategies to turn them around into fantastic learners. In the chapter, Gladwell is extremely descriptive by using visual words to paint the picture of the South Bronx in New York City. He describes the buildings that were built in the 1960’s as squat and bleak looking. Gladwell had an interest in this subject as it involves success, however he had no prior experiences to produce the piece. Gladwell establishes personal credibility through the use of knowledge, reason, and facts and figures. He comes across very knowledgeable on the subject presenting great data with excellent vocabulary. He is able to do this with no obvious bias as well. Gladwell shows authority because he is well known for writing novels that involve success. His intention is to teach and explain how schools need to change the length of vacation breaks

Prompt: Write an essay that defends or challenges or qualifies Gladwell’s assertion that “if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and you use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires” (Gladwell 151).

In Malcolm Gladwell's national bestseller "Outliers", Gladwell makes many intriguing assertions, one of them being "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your imagination, you can shape the world to your desires." This statement is indeed authentic. When one is privileged with extraordinary talent and yet incorporates time and effort to improve it, that person is destined to succeed.

What exactly is an Outlier? Malcolm Gladwell explains to his readers in "Outliers" that an Outlier are "men and women who do things out of the ordinary." Gladwell explains to us that an in order to become successful, there are many factors that can lead to it including birth dates, community and culture, and legacy. He doesn't entirely believe that you can achieve success just from individual merit and hard work but that it takes the environment around you and opportunity to become successful. In the contrary, Gladwell writes a whole chapter titled, "The 10,000-Hour Rule" which he explains that it takes ten thousand hours of practice to become successful in something. Then he mentions that it opportunity plays a part in this success, when speaking about The Beetles, and how they were giving an opportunity to play at a club for about ten thousand hours. If it wasn't for this opportunity that was given to The Beetles, Gladwell believes that they wouldn't be as who they are now and would have never been as successful and wealthy as they are now. Gladwell claims that social and economic background can determine whether or not a individual will succeed. This claim is false becaus a person who is wealthy can not be as successful as one who is not wealthy.

In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers he argues that outliers, people who have achieved success almost entirely by their own means through perseverance and hard work, are not possible. Gladwell claims instead that people achieve success primarily through the opportunities they are born with or are presented with throughout their life.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, believes that working at something for 10,000 hours is required to achieve mastery and become a world class expert at anything. While this is a nice way of making it seem like anyone can be successful, it is simply not true. Some people will never achieve proficiency in a domain, no matter how much practice they put into it. There are a variety of factors that play into expertise besides practice and certain domains require much less practice than the magical 10,000 hour threshold that Gladwell established.

Malcolm Gladwell, in his novel entitled, “Outliers,” explores the landscape of success and shows us that success comes from the culture that surrounds the successful , not their intelligence and ambition. Gladwell explains this through a series of situations and studies. In Part One, he discusses success as a result of timing, such as the month or year you were born. In Part Two, he focuses on cultural legacies and how they play a role in helping someone become successful. He unfolds the reasons why hockey players are not born in the latter part of the year, why the Beatles and Bill Gates were able to become so successful, and why Jewish immigrants were able to become successful lawyers and doctors. Gladwell disproves many beliefs by discovering

Although I have lived in America, I still feel infinitely grateful for my birth country, China. As Malcolm, Gladwell writes in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Chinese is innate born with diligence since the thousands of their ancestors have been working on the rice paddies days and nights to cultivate the corps, in the hope of earnning the fortune to the whole family. They believed that work hard, and the reward they will attain will respectively increase. This iron rule could also efficiently apply to Chinese education. Since China is a developed country, a large part of its population struggle to make a living under the average line of poverty, therefore it has a high demand on elite, with which to progress the whole society in all

In this essay I intend for the audience to show how Gladwell’s points in Outliers part one effect our education systems and people's success. I will also be giving examples to fix this. I want to show the reader how there are many obstacles for kids to success. First is their age, cut off dates hinders some children and excels others. Second is social skills and without those most people are not noticed and are overlooked. Thirs is how practicing can make a difference for kids if they are all giving the same opportunity. With giving equal opportunity to each child, separating kids at the age of 10 would be idealistic so they have equal opportunity to succeed and make their own path.

In chapter seven and chapter eight of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell effectively claims that acknowledging cultural legacies betters the chance of success. In chapter seven of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell entices readers on the topic of plane crashes in the aviation world, while commendably and credibly synthesizing the controversy around the question of how and why plane crashes occur.  When illustrating the terrible crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 in 1997, Gladwell intricately describes the language, words, actions, and psychology of the pilots and crew members associated with the plane crash to better the authenticity of his claim.  Combining these ideas, Gladwell forms a theory that arguably proves to be true

Every book as a meaning for being written, and every teacher has a specific purpose for a book to be read by their class. Each book presented to this class provided a multitude of life lessons to take from them. These books are Choosing Powerful Words, Outliers, and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Each book was assigned for a given purpose whether it be to teach the class the eloquence of words, how to use those words to influence others, or just being successful in life. Choosing Powerful Words was written by Ronald Carpenter and is a source for tips about speaking and using your words to better present your message to others. In his book, he states that two ways to do this are emphasis and metaphor. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell provides examples of successful people who’s achievements ‘fall outside normal experience”. In this he explains the ten thousand hour rule as well as the Matthew Effect. The final book for reading is How to Win Friends and Influence People, written by Dale Carnegie. Originally published during the depression, Carnegie gives tips for being a leader as well as techniques in handling people. Two key components of this are to not criticize, condemn, or complain. One aspect of being a leader is to praise every and the slightest of improvements. Each of these components of each book are important and can be related to parts of every person’s life in some manner.

The American dream gives hope to many people striving to be successful despite not having a wealthy upbringing. The goal is surrounded by the idea that coming from a poor background does not determine the quality of one’s future and with enough effort and grit, one can achieve greatness. This dream was sold to the early immigrants of America that believed with this young nation, the opportunities and chance of success were plentiful, and anyone could have a better future in America. One of these people was Benjamin Franklin that ran away to America to have a better future in his printing business. Franklin is one of the nation's founding fathers and is considered one of the men that lived the original American dream.

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi are both literary works, which address the moral dilemma of unearthing the complicated truths of life compared to living in an unrealistic dream world devoid of reality. In the non-fiction piece Outliers, Gladwell examines and analyzes the multiple factors, which leads to an individual’s success. He debunks the many myths that society believes about what makes a person prosper. By interviewing affluent individuals and conducting different studies, Gladwell explains why one person with certain mental capabilities is more successful than another with similar IQ. Unlike Gladwell who seeks to end misconceptions, the protagonist and narrator Pi Patel in Martel’s Life of Pi, lives in an illusory world.

The audience is people who want to be successful. This is evident because despite his definition of outlier as “something that is situated away from… a related body”, Gladwell focuses on those that stand out due to success rather than failure (3). His choice of outlier examples are successful people such as The Beatles and Bill Gates in “The 10,000 Hour Rule”. He wishes to reach an audience of those against preconceived notions of success and in favor of equal opportunities in society. This is demonstrated when he repeatedly argues against a set of ideals that is represented by a vague “we”. He later states that “by ‘we’ I mean society” to clarify his argument (33). By arguing against society, Gladwell calls the audience to take action. He

Success is a concept that has blinded numerous people in society into believing that it involves only luck and hard work. Although these two factors do play a role, there are several other major aspects that are necessary to achieve success. This idea is explored in the nonfiction novel Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, which explains the many factors at work in the typical success stories. Despite the fact that I have not yet completed the book, I’ve read enough to organize my thoughts as well as comprehend the rhetorical situation/strategies.