All American Dream (Outliers)
The all American Dream Everyone has heard of the American Dream, this assumption that social transgression is obtainable to any individual, non-adherent to that individual’s background. However, this bare meaning of the American Dream was the adequate meaning during the 20th century, but in today’s terms, it exemplifies this sense of hope that any person, despite of what life they were born into, can ascend to their interpretation of success through diligent work and resiliency. This universal acceptance to the American Dream can be distinguished throughout Outliers, by Malcom Gladwell, and throughout the numerous of today’s successful people. The book Outliers, talks about how many of us have this potential to reach heights that successful people are situated in. This is the critical point that the book tries to expose to its readers. Rationally, what most people interpret from the American Dream, is this successful and rich life that most of today’s people wish to obtain, but we, mankind, fail to realize that in order to reach such heights in society we must put in more time and effort than any other person to transgress through societies’ ladders. In some occasions we truly believe that there is this sort of elevator that can quickly take us to successful lives. Although such a thing is possible, it still takes a considerable amount of time to do so. For instance, sports are an acceptable way to ascend faster. Sports are the main reason why so many people are so successful today, they became this experts that caused them to receive payments for it. Admirably, you cannot just be born with such experience, controversy from the theory of prodigies. However, Gladwell does state this criteria for mastering a certain thing, he exclaims that you must practice for 10,000 hours in order to truly master the thing. “Is the ten-thousand-hour rule a general rule of success?” (Gladwell 47); in this chapter, Gladwell questions whether or not 10,000 hours the rule to
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