Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose and/or the attainment of popularity or profit.
Malcolm Gladwell’s, Outliers: The Story of Success, similarly tells different stories of different people and how their lives came to be. He examines what makes a successful person successful and he addresses the fact that one can come to be successful from several different factors; some self-made, some born to it and raised around cultural and societal forces as well as parental guidance, some because of great luck of time and opportunity, and others because specialization in their own talents or having passion for what they do. Gladwell debunks the myth that success is handed only to those who work hard. He does, however, suggest

That, in his eyes, is the only way success can be self-made, by practice and perseverance. Otherwise, one must be at luck with the chances of opportunity handed to them, opening the doors to a road of success, like Bill Joy, and/or be born in a certain time period that maximizes their chances and highly influences their luck, like Bill Gates. He also suggests that parents play a role in the success of their kids, the more involved and present they are in their childhood, the more the child becomes one of greater success than one with a non-involved parent. Last but not least, he mentions the factor of how passionate the individual is about his work. It’s like a small chain reaction, the more meaningful the work is to you, the more hours and effort you will want to put in, the more hours and effort you put in, the better you become at what you do, the better you become, the higher the chances that will bring you success. With children of successful people, the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree. Looking down the branch of a family tree that values hard work, that can influence generations of

However, when one achieves success, does that make that person a hard worker? Are they a happy person because they’ve accomplished so much? Are they labeled as a person who worked truly the best they could for what they earned? Gladwell makes it coherent that successful people are people taking upon the opportunities handed to them at fortunate times. Bill Joy and Bill Gates seized their opportunities to do computer programming at their school’s because their access to computers at a time when many other schools didn’t have the chance, giving them the advantage. Both Joy and Gates obviously took these opportunities and made something out of it the best they could and got their practice in early before the revolution of computers had officially risen, also making them lucky; date-wise. Does this imply that both Bills were hard working, self-made, successful men? Or does it simply just mean they had a great deal luck when they were represented with an opportunity that’d bring them great success down the road as long as they practice with the resources available to them? Gladwell explains the description of success as not simply of a person’s personalities and traits, but rather by considering more quantifiable things. Essentially, he suggests that some people’s success is not so much because of their personal qualities, it’s because they’re placed in