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Growing up in a world where fake news and irrational arguments can be considered a daily occurrence, one could read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell with a skeptical eye. Readers may try to pick out details that have been used as gimmicks to hook readers into buying it. However, once readers move past these thoughts, they can find that the ideology that Gladwell uses to describe what makes a person successful to be reasonable and worthwhile. He states in his introduction, “They had to appreciate the

In the dictionary, conformity is defined as “compliance with standards, rules, or laws.”. The reason I believe that conformity is a common element in both Emerson’s Self-Reliance and Gladwell’s Outliers is because in Self-Reliance, Emerson believed that to be self-reliant, you must avoid conformity. Gladwell agrees with this in chapter 8 of Outliers, where he states that we tend to conform to rules based off of where we are from and

Regardless of location, age, sex, or cultural identity, everyone strives for success. Like most people, I associated success with hard work, intelligence, talent, and a striving for greatness that is present in many but perseveres for few. However, Malcom Gladwell’s novel, Outliers: The Story of Success, compared Canadian hockey players, Silicon Valley geniuses, Korean pilots and Asian mathematicians to propose the concept that success does not inherently form from hard work and skill alone, but

The current study analyses the potential of shorter video consultations as tools of clinical evaluation. It also provides evidence in the later parts of the report of short video consultations being used to accurately diagnose clinical disorders; discusses the scenarios where shorter consultations can be profitably used and also explores the future implications of reducing clinical evaluation time. In the current study, short video consultations are being studied as tools of asynchronous telepsychiatry

There is an old saying that almost everyone has heard at some point in their lives: “practice makes perfect.” But is this saying really true? In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, he examines the correlation between practice and success. He argues that one must put in 10,000 hours of practice in a certain area in order to be successful and “achieve mastery” in it. However, there has also been research done that contradicts Gladwell’s theory. While I agree with Gladwell’s overall idea that practice

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 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

According to Malcolm Gladwell (2008), “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (page 151).” Many of these “outliers” that Gladwell gave example to, though, were subject to opportunity and circumstance, not just the action of hard work and assertion. Hard work and intelligence were a huge part of the outliers’ stories, but so was their childhood home, birthdate, and social status. One such story that Gladwell (2008) presents

There are always issues, in every country, continent, and place throughout the world. An issue can range from something small, like losing a sports game to a much larger scale, for example, the next World War. The novel Outliers:The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell inhibits many issues, specifically it discusses the Matthew Effect which demonstrates how the successful get more successful while the latter get left behind, comparing this to hockey players in Canada. Also, it demonstrates the differing

Why the Formula for Success manufactured by Malcolm Gladwell is a Contrivance Malcolm Gladwell crafted a formula to combat one of man’s greatest obstacles; finding the concrete method to success. He contrived his formula by providing the reader examples that represented his personal ideals and it’s attempted to solidify that they were common appearances throughout history. However, having concrete belief that his formula will work in every success story cannot be ascertained, especially when proving