Gladwell proves that success involves factors other than luck. Not only is this maturity advantage seen in athletic situations, but Gladwell includes it is present in academics. In the text Gladwell writes, “Recently, two economists — Kelly Bedard and Elizabeth Dhuey—looked at the
In the article, “Blue Collar Brilliance”, published in the summer of 2009 by Mike Rose in the American Scholar, Rose persuades people that the amount of someone’s educational level doesn’t justify their intelligence level and we shouldn’t base our opinions of their intelligence purely off their jobs. Since this article was published in the American Scholar his target audience is people of higher education and those who might hold stereotypes of blue collar workers. Rose is highly successful in persuading his audience to form new opinions on blue collar workers and their overall intelligence levels. He emphasizes his credibility throughout the article with anecdotes, a well thought out organization of his paper, as well as an elevated vocabulary
section is to point outis that intelligence has a ?threshold.? Once a person someone reaches a certain level of intelligence, they are indistinguishable from others in their same league and are ? smart enough? to do the things their equally intelligent counterparts are qualified to dofor. Once the threshold of intelligence is reached, Gladwell says, other factors begin to weigh in, and it is those factors are whatthat ultimately spellare the difference between success and failure, as is seen in the examples of Chris Langanm and Robert Oppenheimer.
Both Langan and Oppenheimer had genius level IQs, yet Oppenheimer was an outlier and Langan was not. Gladwell explores their different childhoods and concludes Oppenheimer's success was in part due to his parents wealth and parenting. Moreover he concludes Langan’s lack of success was due to his parents lack of wealth and absent parenting. Gladwell completes his theory by explaining Langan’s lack of success wasn’t due to his lack of intelligence, but instead due to his lack of support from others, “He’d had to make his way alone, and no one- not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses- ever makes it alone.” (Gladwell
In the article “What’s Wrong With Vocational School?”, Charles Murray of The Wall Street Journal believes that too many lower intelligent high school students are entering college. Murray argues that those with average intelligence are suitable for many job occupations, but that a college education is “where [their] skills leave off]. He goes on to explain that the body of people with an IQ of 100 can pass a college level Economics course, but not fully understand the complexities of the material itself. Murray believes that people who will excel in college must have “an IQ of 115 or higher”, which is around a quarter of the population. He then points out that the larger percentage of those enrolled should go to vocational school, not college,
He develops his argument by using a personal story about Chris Langan a man with high IQ and statistics about IQ from research to prove innate intelligence doesn’t matter unless you do something with it. For instance, Langan was said to be the next “Einstein” because of his high IQ, but what people didn’t realize however was that “...additional IQ points does not seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.” Gladwell concludes this from observing the story of Chris Langan and how he “failed” to live up to his potential of being a massive influence on the world. Gladwell proves Langan wasn’t everything he could be be because he was trying to operate on his own “Langan was smart, but he had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever make it
Malcolm Gladwell insists that IQ is not the determining factor in one’s ability to achieve success because he believes that opportunity and chance play critical roles in one’s journey to achieve success. In Outliers, Gladwell includes Christopher Langan story growing up. Langan has an IQ of one ninety-five, “The average person has an IQ of one hundred… Einstein one fifty” (Gladwell 70). Langan is considered “the smartest man in America” and sometimes “the smartest man in the world”.
Intelligence is what gets us by everyday; it gets us jobs and helps to provide for ourselves and others. I'm not saying you need to be the smartest person ever to be successful, but you at least have to be smart enough. Gladwell mentions that "Langan’s IQ is 30 percent higher than Einstein’s. But that doesn’t mean Langan is 30 percent smarter than Einstein. That’s ridiculous.
There is an important theme in the story Flowers for Algernon By Daniel Keyes. It is a fiction novel about a thirty year old man who has been battling to overcome an intellectual deficit all of his life and has an opportunity to become more intelligent than he ever had imagined through an experimental operation. He takes the opportunity and in a few weeks he becomes a genius for a short time before his itelligence receded as fast as it increased. The author includes many important themes throughout the passage. Daniel Keyes develops the theme that intelligence doesn’t affect who you truly are through Charlie’s experiences both before and after the operation.
Malcom Gladwell, the author of The Outliers, analyzes the factors to success based on real-life example. Through statistical facts and logical reasoning, he attempts to prove how success is more than just hard work and being intelligent. He supports his arguments with accurately calculated statistical facts to gain the trust of his audience and to work towards 2proving his points. Gladwell determines the reasons of success by comparing well-known successful people and finding commonalities between those people. Gladwell does not believe anyone can be a self-made man.
People believe students who go to college have intelligence more than students who’s in the work field after high school. UCLA Professor Mike Rose explain intelligence should not be measure by the level of school students completed and students can be successful in the work field or without finish school. In fact, Rose used his mother as an example of students might have intelligence without finish school. For instance, his mother drop off school in middle school who is a waitress at the coffee shop she has intelligence to memorize all the customer. According to Rose “he observe and studied the working habits of blue-collar job workers and have come to
Having an opportunity of practical intelligence is important for achieving success because people can change the situation to their desire by using practical intelligence. Even though asserting oneself is also an important requirement to succeed by appealing with confidence, better results of asserting yourself are guaranteed through capability of practical intelligence which is the ability to knows what, when, and how to say. In chapter 4 of Outliers, practical intelligence is mentioned as a key to success. For example, there is a case of Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer in outliers that shows the importance of practical intelligence. Even though they both have high IQ, Robert Oppenheimer succeed, but Chris Langan does not.
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When you think about the frontline in combat in the military you think of men in there and not women. Society has made us to think sexest and be more towards the male. Some people believe women are too weak to be in combat, women should be able to have different roles in the military and be able to fight if they want based on equality and if they meet the physical and mental requirements. Women can tolerate much more pain than man, we are strong and worthy of fighting in combat with men. It’s been proven that women can tolerate more pain than men.
THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE INTRODUCTION Throughout history, numerous researchers have suggested different definitions regarding intelligence and that it is a single, general ability, while other researchers believed that the definition of intelligence includes a range of skills. Spearman (general intelligence), Gardner (multiple intelligence) and Goleman (emotional intelligence) have all looked into further research regarding intelligence, where 3 different theories were formed regarding what intelligence is and how it should be defined. Since then, Binet, Simon and Terman have all contributed to intelligence testing. Although, there is still controversy over intelligence testing.
