An outlier is a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. In other words‚ an outlier is a person who goes out of their way and does something no one thought was possible for them to do. Many people in the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell did things that people thought weren’t possible. People like Bill joy‚ Martin Luther king Jr. are all outliers because this individuals all did something extraordinary. In the book Outliers‚ Malcolm G talks about the 10‚000 hour rule
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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
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There´s many a slip between the cup and the lip The Outliers exposes remarkable stories about successful people and goes behind the curtains to highlight key events in the life of these individuals that led them to their good fortune. For the most part Mr. Gladwell thesis is pretty simple; in order to win the lottery you must first buy a lottery ticket. Of course the author wrote a book on this therefore he goes a lot more into detail on how and why was the ticket purchased‚ what ethnicities
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Why is Syntax Important? Syntax is the grammatical tool that deals with how sentences are put together and the relationship between words. It is a very methodical and logical sequence‚ ensuring that sentences are put together using subject‚ verb and object and that the words in the sentence all have agreement‚ so that the correct forms of words are used. Without syntax to structure the language‚ it would simply be a string of words that makes no sense. For example‚ correct syntax would state
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Opportunity is the Key to Success "And that opportunity played a critical role in their success" (30 Gladwell). Many times‚ people will argue that if you want something‚ you can achieve it simply through hard work; however‚ that is not always the case. In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers‚ he explains the significant amount of opportunities that successful people are given. Gladwell uses the example of Joe Flom to explain how timing is a huge factor in success. Early in his career‚ he was declined by
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1. The large difference between how I have thought and understood success compared to the way Malcolm Gladwell argues is the circumstances and families that create success. Previous to reading this book‚ I strongly believed that the way to become successful was to put in hard work. For example‚ my theory to success was similar along the lines to what Malcolm Gladwell discusses earlier in the book. He says‚ “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good”(Gladwell
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book‚ Outliers‚ Gladwell’s claim that success is determined as a result of one’s opportunities‚ legacy‚ and their ability to capitalize on them is valid and holds its weight when closely examined. Gladwell’s sub-claim in the first half of Outliers that the time an individual or individuals chooses to puts into a certain activity when given the chance to is what ultimately determines mastery of that skill is seen prevalently in society. He substantiates this claim by examining numerous success stories
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significant correlation between success and skill? Nowadays‚ the path to success seems to be different for each individual‚ as some people have unfair advantages to help them excel faster. Often times‚ these advantages stem from circumstances no one even has control over. Through his book Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell claims that the idea of a self-made man is a logical fallacy as almost all successful people have had a leg up over others. While a small portion of success is due to pure talent‚ Gladwell’s
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When I first got this book‚ I did not expect it to be about what it was about. Outlier is a term that we use in math. Something out of the ordinary‚ a number that is not like the others‚ different. Who would have thought that this book was going to talk about people? I thought it was so clever to call people outliers. What an intelligent way to describe those people. To describe the people out of the ordinary‚ the talented ones and to explain why they are so. The first chapter is called the Matthew
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