Practice makes perfect. In Outliers: Story of Success written by Malcolm Gladwell shows you what you must do to reach that level of greatness and achievement. Gladwell discusses some very good points into this research discussing him claim for the research, his reasoning behind or for the research and his evidence for the research of perfection. There is a reason why there is so much greatness in this world. For Gladwell, this pathway to perfection is through practice. Practice makes perfect
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Nonviolent excerpts, the two chosen to write about are Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. It seems that the two men only agreed upon one idea, which is, bettering the life for African Americans in America, alternatively, having two different views on how to achieve this goal. Malcolm X was not a radical. However, he voiced different views during the Civil Rights Movements. It is believed by a majority of educated African Americans that if Malcolm was a radical so was every white American that murdered
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April drew in another deep breath and began to scroll through the empty pages of her application essay. Exhaling once more, she opened the novel, Outliers: The Story Of Success, and flipped through the pages while searching for nothing specific. Malcolm Gladwell wrote on page 79 that, “To get into and succeed in a reasonably competitive graduate program, meanwhile, you probably need an IQ of at least 115.” This concept awakened a thought, hidden until now, that transported her six years back to Manchester
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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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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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Malcom X: Learning to Read conveys the message that literature can provide one with inner freedom through escaping from the harsh realities of life. This is exhibited as Malcom X proclaims “months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” Through literature, he was able to forget his struggles of being imprisoned. Malcom X was an illiterate prisoner and was frustrated for being unable to articulate himself clearly through
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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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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
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Minister and Civil Rights activist, Malcolm X delivered “On Afro-American History” speech, in Harlem, one month before his death. Malcolm targets an audience of any black person. HIs goal is to educate them on their history and to persuade them to understand his belief. Broadly, the claim of the speech is that knowledge of history is power. Malcolm supports this claim with four main ideas he addresses. One, Black people cannot understand their current situation and correct the future without knowledge
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Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” is a book that exposes the hidden patterns of everyday life especially when it comes down to success and some prominent figures in modern day or in the past. For example he uses Bill Gates, The Beatles, a man with an IQ of 195, and students in Asian countries, to show how their pasts, cultures, uncanny dedication, and rare circumstances led them to be what they were. He does this in an intriguingly simplistic manner, in that he uses common sense to expose reasons
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