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Malcolm Gladwell Outliers

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Like the book “Outliers,” its author Malcolm Gladwell is also an outlier himself. He accomplished a great by having all his books published and becoming New York Time 's best selling author. According to the Huffington Post website, out of human entire history only, 130 million books were published. While the figure may not seem big, it is not a small amount compared to the people who want to be great authors (Huffpost, 2013). Gladwell, being able to accomplish his success as an author, is an outlier in his field. According to the epilogue of Outliers,Gladwell talks about how he became an outlier because of extrinsic factors. There are several extrinsic factors that helped Gladwell become an outlier. For instance, Gladwell’s great-great-great-grandmother, …show more content…

According to chapter 7 “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes” of Outliers, Gladwell opens with an account of Korean Air flight 801. The flight was taking a route from Seoul to Guam, and also the captain was an experienced captain which means that the captain had a lot of experience flying, so as he was flying there were no incidents. The flights was about to arrive at it’s destination, but the plane could not reached the airport, but instead the plane crashed into the side of a mountain and killed about 254 people on board. During the late 1990s, the Korean airline had a bad reputation which resulted from many plane crashed and criticism from the Korean president. The problems of Korean Air’s were not the results of sudden catastrophes or malfunctions; rather they are generally the products of individual errors and problems that build up on another which is individual cultural legacies. Also, Korean Air had highest PDI, which is a “concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority (Gladwell, 2008 pg. 204-205).” In Korea, there is a cultural legacy which is a “mitigated speech”. Mitigated speech is “which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said (Gladwell, 2008, pg. 194).” Most of Korean people mitigate when they’re being polite, ashamed, embarrassed, or when they’re being deferential to authority. For instance, “If you want your boss to do you a favor, you don 't say, "I 'll need this by Monday." You mitigate. You say, "Don 't bother, if it 's too much trouble, but if you have a chance to look at this over the weekend, that would be wonderful." In a situation like that, mitigation is entirely appropriate (Gladwell, 2008, pg.194).” Hence, Korean Air’s had lots of planes crashed such as

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Malcolm Gladwell states in Outliers that 10,000 hours of practice in a sport or hobby or career, will propel one person over another. He tries to convince us with his argument by bringing up people like Bill Gates and the Beatles, stating that they spent more than 10,000 hours perfecting their craft. At first his argument seems pretty legit and holds merit, but then you begin to question. What if someone practices for 10,000 hours, but doesn 't put in much work? What if someone, who has spent few hours than 10,000 is excelling?

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Pod Cast Malcom Gladwell is author of Outliers The story of success. Gladwell speaks on success how circumstances may out come your success but that may not be that case. Tony Robbins a motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist. Robbins doesn’t see circumstances as a determined factor.

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Some have named Ray Bradbury “the uncrowned king of the science-fiction writers” because of his imagination and beautiful way of making Fahrenheit 451 come to life. The book Fahrenheit 451 is one of the first books to deal with a future society filled with people who have lost their thirst for knowledge and for whom literature is a thing of the past. The author mainly portrays this world from the point of view of Montag, a man who has discovered the power that knowledge contains and is coming to grips with the fact that it is outlawed. However, the reader also gets to see what life is like for one of the people content in living a life lacking in independent thought and imagination through his wife, Millie.

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My understanding of the “American Dream” is a concept of migrating to the United States, starting from scratch, and becoming rich and successful by working hard. But after reading Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell change my perspective of the “American Dream” by providing the idea of luck and opportunity playing a major factor in one 's success. Almost all the success story of the immigrant in the book was by opportunity because of birth, chance by cultural background and circumstances. Gladwell changed my view of how the “American Dream” is accomplished, not solely by hard work, but luck and opportunity are what factor into someone accomplishing the “American Dream”. Reading Outliers, the main thesis or central premise of Gladwell on why some people

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In "Outliers: The story of success", Malcom Gladwell explained and gave examples of ways to be successful. There are many ways that Gladwell mentioned, such as luck, practice, background, family, and culture. There are many more of course, but I will save time. There are three of which I think are the most important, these being Intelligence, Social Skills, and Location; and these are explanations as to why I think these are the most important.

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Outliers Malcolm Gladwell does an excellent job in taking the expected and making it the unexpected. He shows that although hard work and dedication are important to be successful, they are not the only determining factors. Each chapter started out with a story of someone who seemed to have risen from nothing into something, and he carefully broke the situation down and analyzed the time periods, what their religion/ ethnicity were, family life, and what was occurring in the world during their youth. In each part he connected back to previous stories/examples to continue making the point that it is almost impossible to truly make a successful career out of nothing on your own.

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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.

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First of all, the opportunity of relative age that gives maturity from early birth date and extends the small advantage from maturity by giving them more experience refutes his assertion that success can be attained with only hard working. Secondly, the opportunity of having practical intelligence that enables people to change the situation in a good way refutes his assertion that success can be achieved by only self- assertiveness. Lastly, the opportunity of fulfilling 10,000 hours practice that gives a chance to achieve basic requirements to become an outlier refutes his assertion that success can be achieved when people imagined the world on their own using mind and imagination. Finally, to shape the world that people desire, people are required more opportunities than factors that Gladwell

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Gladwell 's main argument is that although hard work and talent are essential for success, one’s given opportunities and cultural legacy are what really drive them to the pinnacle of success. The first aspect that Gladwell introduces to support his argument is the importance of opportunity. One example that he talks about is “The Matthew Effect”. “The Matthew Effect” is shown through the Medicine Hat Tigers elite hockey team of Canada; if one was to look at the roster, which includes their birth dates, they would find something quite peculiar.

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