...In the novel Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell discusses several key aspects throughout the book that contribute to people becoming successful. Mostly, Gladwell argues that "hidden advantages", "extraordinary opportunities", and "cultural legacies" are the main factors that play a part in a person's level of success. So, due to these particular aspects that help make a person a success, not everyone is capable of becoming an outlier. People must have certain things working for them in order to become successful. A person must have "hidden advantages" working for them. They must have "extraordinary opportunities" that they are able to take. Furthermore, certain cultures have traits that are important in becoming successful, so a person's "cultural legacies" play a large part in the journey to success. In Outliers, Gladwell provides numerous examples of these key aspects being a part of a successful person's life, but are they actually true for every person that is an outlier?...
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...with the help of hidden and unhidden advantages. He backs this point up by giving evidence of advantages such as birthday, family background, and small windows of opportunity. Malcolm Gladwell's first advantage successful people have could be their birthday. This fact is obvious when comparing professional athletes. The most obvious example is in Canadian hockey Malcolm Gladwell's first advantage successful people have could be their birthday. This fact is obvious when comparing professional athletes. The most obvious example is in Canadian hockey where some children are pushed above others unfairly with their hidden advantage that is their birthday. This correlates with success because it sets where they will be in terms of their team and the sports cut off dates. Malcolm Gladwell's second advantage successful people have is their family background. In the epilogue of outliers, Gladwell describes his ancestors lives and all of the advantages brought to him by those successes. He also points out that in New York many years ago, Italian people had an ancestral advantage of sewing skills that help them thrive in their new country. Gladwell will states, " Who we are cannot be separated from where we are from." This is very true also in terms of culture...
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...Dweck Vs Gladwell Mind-Sets and Equitable Education By: Carol Dweck and The Matthew Effect Outliers By: Malcom Gladwell are texts that have two different meanings but they argue the same theme of success. The general idea of Mindset is that an individual can reach success if their mind is right. Dweck beliefs impact student’s motivation to learn and their willingness to expand the effort necessary to succeed. The general idea of Outliers is success occurs to those under special circumstances. Gladwell points out that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. Dweck and Gladwell both analysis how the students are being educated. Although their arguments appear contradictory Dweck and Gladwell texts both argue that peoples belief determine success. In the story Mindset Dweck believes that educators should to incite change within the school system. She also argues that success is a product of effort. Dweck identifies two sets of principles; a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Dweck points out the change in grades from the beginning of...
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...Through multiple cases, Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” challenges the theories that success is self-made. He discovers hidden advantages and opportunities that allowed for people to become successful. He defines an outlier as “a person who doesn't fit into our normal understanding of achievement”, and attempts to convince the reader these outliers are beneficiaries or extraordinary opportunity and special circumstances. Part one of “Outliers” is centered around “The Matthew Effect”, stemming from the Bible, as in Matthew, one of the disciples just happened to be at the right place, right time, when Jesus picked him to become a disciple. The statistical advantage of time is looked at extensively in chapter one. After attending a Canadian professional...
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...George Washington Carver is well known for his success despite many obstacles. He was a successful chemist, botanist, and inventor, amongst many other titles, he created hundreds of products. He is influential to virtually all Americans, especially African-Americans. In Malcolm Gladwells’ book Outliers: The Story of Success he covers many key points and hidden advantages in the lives of successful people. Gladwells’ points can be found all throughout Carver’s life, such as the theory of relative age and the 10,000 hour rule. George had many odds up against him since the day he was born, yet he overcame many obstacles in order to become successful, along with opportunities and hidden advantages (Outliers 1). George was born a slave in Diamond, Missouri, but no one knows for sure if he was born in 1863 or 1864. He had many siblings enslaved by Moses Carver. Unfortunately at one week old, he along with his sister and mother were kidnapped, sold, and George was returned to Moses (Kremer 29). Carver and his brother were raised by the Carvers, Mrs. Carver homeschooled the boys since no schools in Diamond would accept African-American students. He...
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...Arguing Ethically and Thinking Logically “Hidden advantage and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies” (Gladwell, 2011, p.19). This is one way that Gladwell introduces us to the idea of the “Mathew Effect.” He argues that being among the best at something, is not a result of innate talent but rather it is having the good fortune of being in a skill-learning environment at the right time and in the right place. In some cases, the conducive environment is simply being the right age with the right resources available. When age and resources line up at the on-set of learning a skill, this initial advantage accumulates; it exponentially increases over time. The result of successive advantages leads to what is mistaken as natural ability....
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...Outliers summary When it comes to success, we are taught from day one that hard work, perseverance and the will to succeed would overcome any obstacle. Every day, the stories of success can be shared and used to inspire others who hope to one day reach similar happiness. The extremely incredible entrepreneur who rose from rags to riches or the tale of the underdog sports team that surprised all competitors and won the championship are the stories that continuously drive the dreams of individuals and make success seem possible to all. But what if success was not attainable for all, regardless of work ethic and all other factors that may contribute to it. What if, based on predetermined occurrences, success was easier for some to obtain because of those occurrences? The Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell, is the author’s compiled study of success and how it very much so can be attributed to all of the normal factors (i.e. talent, work ethic, passion) but are also heavily influenced by the cultural and societal forces that give rise to opportunistic individuals. Through several cases of well known individuals who are deemed to be successful, we as a society easily fall into the myth that successful people are self-made. Gladwell writes that most successful people “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” Gladwell’s definition...
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...using regression analysis. The regression analysis which is based on a correlation between two variables can help us to better understand the relationship between the two variables. The process which is a valuable one has helped researchers, and businesses to grow based on information obtained from a regression analysis that contains a linear regression. Introduction The purpose of a regression analysis is to help show a linear regression of certain variables. This helps to understand the correlation of the variables being tested. Correlation does give reason to suspect that the relationship between two variables is not die to chance or other hidden variables (Editorial Board, [EB], 2012). This is done by utilizing excel to show how the variables match up, and if one is causing the other or if there are outliers that are affecting the outcome. This is important as it will allow for a company to see and eliminate these unnecessary variables and continue their growth. Benefits and Intrinsic Job Satisfaction Regression output from Excel |SUMMARY OUTPUT | | | | | |Intrinsic |-0.08484 |4.844477 |Y=4.84-0.084x |0.00485 | |Extrinsic |0.174181 |3.508927 |Y=3.51+0.174x |0.026214 | |Overall ...
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...Katie Yang Outliers Book Review Honors Psych - Galovich 10/20/14 Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell often discusses a common topic in respect to sociology and psychology: the unusual applications of research in social phenomena. Since a young age, Gladwell has been an ambitious person. His childhood spent wandering around the university where his father taught sparked Gladwell’s passion for reading and discovery. After graduating from college, Gladwell desired to become a journalist or writer, stating that he wanted to “mine current academic research for insights, theories, direction, or inspiration.” Up until now, Gladwell has authored five books. The reason for his writing is due to his two interests: his enthusiasm for collecting...
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...Liliana Tenorio Sherry AP Psychology - 3 27 August 2015 Book Review: Outliers Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers explores the societal forces that give opportunity to individuals willing to put in the effort to become successful. Through the events and experiments he has researched, Gladwell has come to the conclusion that to become a successful person you must be given a specific and miraculous string of opportunities that pave the way for you, insisting that there is no such creature as a “self-made man”. He argues that they “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” In scientific terms an...
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...Outliers is at once Gladwell’s least and most ambitious book. Unlike The Tipping Point and Blink, which took their counter intuitiveness to extremes, the conventional wisdom Gladwell seeks to demolish in Outliers isn’t even really CW anymore. Is there anyone who still believes that “success is exclusively a matter of individual merit,” which is how Gladwell describes his straw man? And yet, as Gladwell examines all the things other than individual merit—the “hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies”—that produce hockey stars and software billionaires and math geniuses, he builds a brief for a massive reorganization of social structures and institutions that will give people who don’t have those advantages and opportunities and legacies an equal shot at success. Consider, for instance, those hockey stars. Relying on the work of a Canadian psychologist who noticed that a disproportionate number of elite hockey players in his country were born in the first half of the year, Gladwell explains what academics call the relative-age effect, by which an initial...
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...Outliers, a book written by Malcolm Gladwell explains to readers about the misinterpretation of society’s views and definition of personal success. He argues that individuals’ accomplishments do not rise from nothing but in fact are being lifted by financial supports, sponsorships and “hidden advantages.” In chapter one of Outlier, Gladwell introduces readers to the notion of “Matthew's Effect,” and how our birth dates define our future. The “Matthew’s Effect,” in which descibes by Gladwell as a compounding of advantages and opportunities that helped those with talents to become more successful and those without talents will be ignored and forgotten. Gladwell uses hockey as an example for this effect. He notices that the “Matthew’s Effect,”...
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...Outliers: The Story of Success Published in 2008, Outliers: The Story of Success is Malcolm Gladwell’s third consecutive best-selling nonfiction book, following Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005). While Tipping Point focuses on the individual’s ability to effect change in society, Outliers deals with the cultural and societal forces that give an individual a chance. Through a series of case studies, Gladwell insists that we have all too easily bought into the myth that successful people are self-made; instead, he says they “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” Gladwell defines an outlier as a person out of the ordinary “who doesn't fit into our normal understanding of achievement.” According to Gladwell, great men and women are made from having success with ability, opportunities to become successful with 10,000 of practice, IQ not being the only thing needed, and that everything comes down to generation, family history, and demographics of society. Gladwell is able to support them and give great examples on how things work out with a person’s life. “The Matthew Effect” examines opportunity as a function of timing. Canadian hockey players born closer to the magic birthday of January 1 reap advantages that compound over time. Computer programmers Bill Joy and Bill Gates, both born in the 1950s...
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...The life expectancy and CO2 emissions share a strong, positive, linear correlation. Through analysis of this graph I can conclude that the two variables have a reverse cause and effect relationship. My reasoning for concluding this is that as life expectancy grows, the CO2 emissions that every person contributes to raises because there is a higher population. The first cluster between 15 and 20 in the chart above is a result of a hidden variable which would be time. The biggest data cluster between the 5 and 10 ton mark for CO2 emissions is due to World War 2. The reason that CO2 emissions per person dropped is because a large portion of Canadians died during this time and this brought the average CO2 emissions for the population down. The lowest outlier is also due to war and was the peak at which the population decreased so the CO2 emissions had gone down with...
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...In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: A Story of Success, Gladwell challenges a reader’s perception of, well…success. In the book, he shifts the reader’s prior basic understanding of success and focuses instead on all the hidden, underlying biases and correlations of success. He proposed the notion that the month one was born in can separate the great athletes from the average, that how high your IQ is may not actually matter as much as many people are lead to believe it does, and that a number can be put on the amount of time one would need to practice in order to become proficient in a particular skill. Yet another example to add to the previously mentioned list of unfair advantages in the road to success, it has been found in numerous studies that even one's name can affect things ranging from your salary to how others can perceive you in general. When going after a job or promotion in any professional American setting, not only would one have to fulfill the asked of requirements, one must look the part and even sound the part. According to a study conducted by TheLadders, an online job matching site, every extra letter in a person’s first name may lead to a reduction in that person’s annual salary by $3,600. In the grand scheme of things, that’s a lot of lost money just for having a few extra letters in one's name. By this logic, there’s no wonder why many people in the business field opt to go by nicknames such as a William to a Bill or even just from a...
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