Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

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The Author of the novel Outliers A Story Of Success Malcolm Gladwell not only is he an author but also a speaker and a journalist from Canada who worked in the New Yorker . The book that will be discussed here is called Outliers which means that an individual or an object is different from other members of the same category or group . The author’s main thesis statement in the book is that people are successful not only because of their hard work and natural ability but because of unseen advantages and opportunities .

The book Outliers the Story of Success is the Authors third book that made it . This books discuss the social and cultural factors that …show more content…

In this chapter the Author Malcolm Gladwell explains his thesis by given an example that shows advantages in sport of players birthdates he showed a correlation between success in hockey and a person birth month . In the book the author uses the Canadian professional hockey league as an examples according to The Canadian Hockey league federation 40% of players are born in the first three months of the years , 30% are born between April and June , 20% between the months of July , September and just 10% in the months of October and December . The explanation that author has for these numbers is that the hockey tryout stop at January 1 so for a child to be born in January will have to wait an entire extra year to tryout than a person being born in December could tryout earlier that one year can affect the players ability a-lot not only will the person have more time to practice but also will be more bigger in body and more grown up than the others .Since this is an advantage to them the author stats that more older the kids is then their abilities are better and they will be sent to better couches and better teams and go through college . The author uses strange correlations that people don,t see because its part of they're hidden advantages they were born in it , it wasn't gained or given it was always there . For example in Chapter 8 of the book the author makes the distinctions that young Chinese children are better in maths than american children . the authors makes this statement by telling us the cause of it is based on a number of factors such as in Madrin its faster to pronounce numbers than in the english language and when counting numbers the Chinese use different system than americans that makes it faster for them add this to cultural aspects of Chinese people that they hard working and they,re stability makes them

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