In Outliers, Malcom Gladwell discusses the factors that contribute to a person’s success. He argues that success is not determined solely by ability, talent or intelligence. He believes that professional-level practicing and parenting style are two important factors in creating true outliers. One factor in attaining outliers’ status is the 10,000 hours of experience a person puts in. Researchers found that 10,000 hours is the average of how much time someone will invest to be at a professional level
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The videos of “The Broken Escalator” and “The Marshmallow Test” provide an analogy about life and how to achieve success and gratification. In “The Broken Escalator”, the people moving up the escalator come to a sudden stop, but they either weren’t willing or smart enough to fix this setback themselves. Instead they stop and wait for someone else to fix their problem. The man who was supposed to fix their escalator predicament had his own problem. So, he wasn’t able to help the other people with
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In a world where people who are really successful are thought of as unique, ambitious, and hardworking, Malcolm Gladwell is able to argue that success comes from innate talent which is harvested through a period of practice. 10,000 hours of practice. Throughout the excerpt, Malcolm Gladwell uses various appeals to rhetoric to persuade the audience that 10,000 hours of practice is what it takes to become a professional, and be successful. A large part of Gladwell’s argument contains ethos. For example
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Army Four-Star General, Colin Powell, once claimed that “success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence” (BrainyQuote). People have a natural tendency to believe wholeheartedly in this claim due to the hope that it provides. The hope offers a concept that hard work will allow anyone, in any situation, to succeed. This idea is a key principle in the founding of America, clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence that “...all men are created
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The Odyssey and Outliers both prove that perseverance is the most important quality to possess in order to achieve a happy and successful life because it helps one accomplish their goals and helps one lead to academic success. Some may argue that perseverance will not lead to happiness due to all of the hardships one has to face to achieve this; however, this is not true because in The Odyssey, Odysseus endures through many hardships in his journey, in order to accomplish his goal. Through hardships
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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
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Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers: The story of success writes about the various direct and indirect factors that lead towards mastery and renown. This book structure as a series of case studies that reach different cultures and different time periods which are related to some theories. According to Gladwell, success does not come simply with the talent, high IQ or personality. Successful individuals often are grateful to the right combination of hard work, community support, and meaningful opportunity
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the Outliers he discusses what events com into play on an individual's path to success. One theory is that an individual becomes successful due to their own skill, and the amount of work that they put in. Another theory mentioned in the book is that an individual becomes successful due to random events and circumstances in their life. I agree with Malcolm that events throughout your lifetime play a role in your success as an adult however, I also believe that if an individual is hardworking and skilled
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The most successful person today suffered thousands of problems just to get to the peak of this rollercoaster. We are taught to learn from our mistakes, but that suffering we face, after making a mistake, makes us regret everything. We just remember the suffering instead of the valuable lessons. Even in the U.S.A., if former slaves would not have suffered the racism and the slavery, they would have never fought for freedom. All the immigrants who come here in a hope of better life and education,
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How much times did Ray went to the probowl? A: Thirteen (p. XI) To which team did Ray’s team lose in the AFC championship game? A: The patriots (p. XI) How long was the missed field goal? A: 32 yards (p. XII) After how much seasons did Ray decided it would be his last? A:14 seasons(p. XII) How much years did Ray thought he could still play at a high level? A: Another four or five years (p. XII) Who was the first person that knew it was Ray’s last season? A: His son, Junior (p. XIII) Which of Ray’s
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