Throughout everyone’s lives, there comes a point where their parents, or some adult-figure has told them that it is time they learn “to dress themselves”. I don’t recall exactly when this occurred in my life, but I would like to think it was sometime around late elementary school, so when I was around 11 years old. I am currently 19, so that means that I have been “dressing myself” for around 8 years. However, when taking a step back, it is possible that I never learned how to truly dress myself, and that all this time I have just thought I did. Cool argues that the majority of people go through life like this, with the illusion that they know how to dress themselves, when in reality, they don’t now the first thing about getting dressed. So, now that I am a soon to be sophomore in college I believe …show more content…
Gladwell states, “The critical thing about this sequence is that it is almost entirely interpersonal” (2.2.9-17). The basis for this entire process is based on the innovators and everyone basically just following in their path. Gladwell uses the example of trying hybrid seed corn to explain this, stating how innovators where the first to attempt it in the beginning of the thirties, and not until the late thirties did the most traditional farmers, the “laggards”, follow in everyone else’s footsteps. From the definitions of each part of the sequence, I would place myself in the early or late majority, or the people that would only really try something new once respected and trusted people have claimed it successful. The coolest of this bunch are clearly the innovators, the ones that stick their neck out and attempt new things because they want to not because society is telling them