Outliers
In the book called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Malcolm has a chapter called The Trouble with Geniuses, Part I where Gladwell spends this chapter showing that a high IQ is not a voucher for a free ride on the success train. He goes to show that once you reach a certain IQ, you are just as likely as to be successful as someone with a much higher IQ score. My thoughts are this is why people exercise all parts of their brains. Gladwell is an excellent writer, no doubt. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end and would unquestionably recommend it to virtually anyone who has an interest in the basic success. Readers can sometimes feel a touch of sadness when the author talked about Langan. It is such a variety of kind people who try and create a huge change and outcome in the world, because of his experiences with the whole stiff civilization. Sadly, Langan did not have the good chance to come across a good adviser. Langan’s mentor would be able to guide him and let him know that specifically because the society is like, and precisely because he experienced it and felt most sturdily about it, that he must have the nerve to create change. This somewhat talks about path reliance. Not considering whether one is super genius or not, the information that Langan came from a dysfunctional family, meant he is destined to unsuccessful evermore. There are other factors that come into play, such as creativity. Give two children a test of how many ways a brick could be used and you will find that even if they have the same IQ score, one may come up with apile more uses than the other. High intelligences as measured by IQ do not essentially lead to success. Samantha Duncan wrote, “Outliers are "normal" people born with a certain drive and work ethic, but who also encounter extreme luck throughout their lives”. This is true to some point it stands alone. People are born with a certain drive and work ethic, but get lucky through out their lives. Some take advantage