What Is The Theme Of Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Everyone wants to be successful, long for to be successful, because success mean wealth, power, and the respect. Certainly, there are many issues to make a person’s success. In“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, he enumerates a lot of issues which make a person’s success, like talent, intelligence, opportunity, environment, hard work, culture, social trends. Environment is an important and necessary issue of the success, and environment are social environment, and family environment. For my opinion, i think family environment influences a person a lot, because family it is the first that you get touch with, and you grow under your family environment since you were a baby that know nothing about this world. Family as the environment that people

After the people’s research, they find out because the South Korean is a high-power distance culture and country. High-power distance means in the society, the subordinate have the dependency to the superior, and the culture teaches them, they need to be respectful to the superiors all the time. Like during the crashes happened, the assistant captain has already realized the problem of the plane, but they influenced by their high-power distance culture, so they can’t convey to the captain correctly and immediately, so it made the tragedy happened. High-power distance mostly appear in the east countries. And it is the fixed mindset to all the people who under this culture, the reason why they have this fixed mindset because of their family environment. The kids be taught to be respect and follow the seniority’s instruct since they were young, and everyone around them are all doing like this, so the high-power distance’s concept be with them the whole life. When they grow up, they follow the teacher’s and parents’ words and after they get in the society get in the work, they would follow the leader’s words. Even though there are some mistakes, like the story happened among the captain and the assistant. High-power distance come from the culture, culture influences

Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer, both are genius that have the high intelligence, but the Langan who come from the poor family only be a high intelligence genius that attend the live show, however the Oppenheimer who come from a wealthy family, become a physicist who famously headed the American effort to develop the nuclear bomb during World War Two. Both as the genius, what makes they have so different life, not about the intelligence, it is about family environment. Langan from the poor family, his mother missed a deadline for his financial aid, it caused Langan didn’t have the chance to college, and continue his study. But Oppenheimer went to Harvard then want to Cambridge University, two most top college in the world, even though he later tried to poison his professor, but he learned a lot physic knowledge from the college, and he still success in the later. From the example of this two genius, we can see how a family’s influence to the people’s success. Both as genius, but have the totally different life experiences. If Oppenheimer born in a poor family that can’t support him to the Harvard and Cambridge University, he wouldn’t be such a great physicist in the world, if the Langan’s family can support to finish his college, he wouldn’t only be the genius that attend the TV live