Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story Of Success

Every teenager probably think about the same question,“what should I major in college?” Well, this looks like a straightforward question on the surface, but the answer may affect us the entire life. In fact, most people took a long time to think about this and many people changing their major frequently. Choose major is not difficult, but choose the right major and choosing the major that suits you is a very hard. However, there have hundred more majors in college, and every college student has to pick their major beginning of the school years. So am I, after serious thinking during the period, I decide to major in psychology because I love psychology, I like to help people. From an early age I have been intrigued by the human mind and how

When I was young, my mom always told me that prosperity and opportunity are only given to those people who are well-prepared. Also, my dad often gives me some famous man’s autobiography to read; I can feel those people are experiencing many challenges and pressure can become the success. From the book of Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell. In chapter one, he said “ success in hockey is based on individual merit, and both of those words are important. Players are judged on their performance, not on anyone else's, and by their ability, not on some other arbitrary fact” (Gladwell). From this quote, an author wants to express the most important thing to decide whether people can succeed is depend on own ability and achievement, is not on the date of born or other things. Many people are superstitious on something, for example, the author believed the best hockey player is born between January to March, otherwise, if people who born in the summertime, those people cannot be the excellent hockey player, even they do not have the chance to join the hockey team. From my point, I do not believe this thing; I only thought that if you spent more time on training one thing or study harder and harder in one area, you must be the success. Also, on the road to success, we will undoubtedly encounter failure, but at this time we should do to give ourselves more confidence, cannot give up. I decide to study psychology, then what should I do is try my best to learn this major, do some excellent achievement to prove