Persuasive Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell writes a powerful book in Outliers that really makes us think about success and what it takes to be successful. Gladwell’s claim that the upper middle class has more opportunities than the poor rests upon the questionable assumption that individuals with an upper middle class background do not have to work hard to be successful. Therefore, we should reconsider Gladwell’s claim because successful people still had to work hard and seize those opportunities. I still believe that we can better ourselves and have a better life than what we started with. Does that mean that we should strive to be the richest people ever? No, but we can still better ourselves. The key to success is that one needs to have a passion for something

If one has a passion for something one will search for opportunities and take chances to follow that passion and dream. Gladwell talks about Bill Gates in his book and he does not focus enough on the passion that Bill Gates has for computers. Whenever a computer lab would close Bill would look for another one or any way he could get around computers. He would sneak out of his house at night to go to a local university and get in the computer lab. He went leaps and bounds to find computer labs and did not give up and stop working with computers. He could have easily just said I am tired of having to get up at night or I do not feel like working on a program for someone else, but he did not. He keep looking for other computer labs and other things to work on. He had to put in lots of hours, and he did not do it for the money because back then the only payment he would get is some free computer time. His passion is what made him successful. His no quit attitude and dream to make his own computers are why Bill Gates is a

Chris Langan is one of the smartest people ever without a college degree. There is no question that the colleges he went to did not treat him right, but if one is that smart, then one must not just stop at two colleges. I would have tried everything that I could have even if it meant starting at a technical college. He could have easily made a name for himself and more colleges would have wanted him to come to their college. Life probably was not fair to Chris Langan but if he has a passion to be the smartest person in the world and to make the world better than he would not have stopped after two colleges. He did not seek his opportunity that he needed like he should have. He should have went to more colleges, tried to get more scholarships, and show why that school should want him. With how many colleges there are in the U.S., someone would have taken him in. He should not just bash that education system because he gave up. He could still try today. He could try every year to get in to college and get his accreditation that he needs to publish his ideas and findings. It is not a question of how smart he is. It is a question of how much he wants to be successful and how much he wants to follow his