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Determination is not the key to success, but actually, it's talent, skill, support, and sometimes even good luck. According to the article provided, famous author J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, had her first book rejected twelve times with different publishers, but finally one publisher said yes. Rowling's team of editors and designers enhanced the book and got it published, Rowling again didn't do it alone, as for many cases in history teamwork led to many businesses, products

Gladwell makes some decent points about success and opportunity, but he doesn’t include women in his research, doesn’t focus on other minority and culture groups, uses data that is far from recent. He also only looks at success as money. In Michiko Kakutani’s article, she says that Gladwell uses research that isn’t representative and outdated. Michiko also talks about how Gladwell’s information is mostly based on ideas and opinions. He tries to restate an obvious thing and make it seem like more

The Misconceptions Surrounding Underdogs Underdogs are not really underdogs at all. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of David and Goliath, believes that we often misinterpret and judge people by their obvious disadvantages and difficulties. We repeatedly make the mistake and assume that they will not succeed. Throughout his book, Gladwell points out that ultimately, the disadvantages that we see of others, are merely advantages for the underdog. These disadvantages and difficulties are also a part

In the novel, Malcolm Gladwell states, "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires" (Gladwell 151). That is, true for some people, but for others, success is more involved, such as talent and preparation, as well as being at the right time and place. Gladwell touches upon talent and preparation. Sometimes if you don't have the talent, it doesn't get you what you want even if you strongly express yourself you are just fighting

Success doesn’t come out of extreme devotion towards something, its comes out of drive. Steven Spielberg never characterized himself a victim despite the fact that he struggled with  dyslexia. He was labeled as lazy growing up because of his inability to read. His struggle has instituted another reason why he should live up to his dream of becoming a filmmaker; To prove to those who labeled him, and to save his shame and guilt that others put on him. Spielberg stated that directing films was his

One page Summary of Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell’s book examines the contributing factors of high leveled success by looking beyond common beliefs. First of all, viewing the key element of an opportunity making way for success like the good nutrition the tallest tree receives from the sun and good soil. For example, Roger Barnesly, a psychologist, suggested good player are born in January, February, and March. However, Gladwell views this phenomenon as a difference in strength

The book Barking up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker is about the surprising science behind why everything you know about success is mostly wrong (2017). According to Barker, “sucess for you is, well up to you. Its about what you personally need to be happy at work and at home (p.298).” This book focused on a different kind of aspect of what a person thinks sucess is. It talks about how success is not about being perfect and always doing the right thing. Instead, the book shows individuals the aspect

A true outlier would be someone who differs from all other members of a group, but Malcolm Gladwell says that this is not the case. When Gladwell says that “The outlier in the end is not an outlier at all”, he means that the people we see as outliers had a lot of help to reach the level of success that they achieved. “Outliers” such as Bill Gates, Joseph Flom are considered the best of the best in their respective fields. They did not just get to the top of their fields from their own personal qualities

What is an Outlier? As defined by Gladwell (2008), it is “1: something that is situated away from or classed different from the main or related body, 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample” (p. 3). Gladwell (2008) examines multiple stories and circumstances of successful people and deeply analyzes natural talent compared to opportunity. Specifically, are socially described “talented” people naturally gifted or are they exposed to certain circumstances

A common theme in Gladwell’s book is hard work. None of the truly successful people got to where they are without lots of hard work. To become a professional athlete or anything really it takes ten thousand hours of practice. That is just the minimum. No one is naturally talented in the sense that they can not put in the hard work and come out on top. Gladwell mentions that in one of the studies of a school’s population of violinists, they “couldn’t find and “naturals,” musicians who floated effortlessly