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Outliers The Story Of Success By Malcolm Gladwell

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The book Outliers: The story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell talks about how people get very successful in life and how to gain success. Success means thriving for you goals. Being successful is what motivates you to strive harder and reach your goal. Once you have succeeded, you can stop pushing yourself to limits you never thought you could reach. You can take a breath or two. Maybe finally live the full potential of life. To “be successful” or have “success” in life, you accomplish your dream, your goal. After everything you have aimed for you have finally achieved your own personal purpose of life. When you have finally hit success in whatever you have wanted to succeed in, it’s memorable. Aiming for a short term goal or long term goal can …show more content…

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (Gladwell 11). Those three things--- autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward --- are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to gave if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills us ( Gladwell 149-150). The second section is legacy. Legacy it basically any morals or values that were given to use from generation to generation. It hides within our current behavior because it is what we value the most. An example used in the book talked about Korean Air accidents. Korean Airlines had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s. The problem was that the Korean Air struggles with cultural values. In the Korean culture, they value things very differently. You are supposed to be respectful towards your elders and anyone that is superior to you. “But he cannot escape the dynamic dictated to him by his culture in which subordinates must respect the dictates of their superiors. In his mind, he has tried and failed to communicate his plight, and his only conclusion is that he must have somehow offended his superiors in the control tower” (Gladwell 208). In the American Culture, listening to your superior is not as relevant. …show more content…

He is the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen (Jeff Bezos Biography). What is interesting is that he was born in January of 1964. In the book, it mentions about what early birth dates says about success (Gladwell 30). Since he was born in January that makes him born in the first month of the calendar which haves an extra chance to be more physically and mentally strong than any other person that is born after he is. As a child, Jeff Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents' garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house (Jeff Bezos Biography). You can see that he had lots of interests in lots of things that he even made his own laboratory because he was motivated. As a teenager, his family moved to Miami where he developed a love for computers and excelled in school, becoming the valedictorian of his class. In high school, he also started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders (Jeffrey Preston Bezos). Creating an educational business while in high school is a good start to becoming a business person. Since, he excelled in school, he had a high

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