Outliers: Understanding Success Through Opportunities

Have you ever wondered how people became successful? You might think it just happens on it own. In “ Outliers” I want to convince you that those personal explanations of success don’t work. People don’t rise from nothing. In Contrast, this book masters to explain that we become successful by the opportunities that come around to us. The book also tells you how if your born on a certain month or even in what family you come from from can help you identify how you can achieve success.

For example, the opportunities that allow us to become successful are necessary. “There was a C-Cubed and the payroll stuff we did,then TWR- all those things came together. I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of a incredibly lucky series of events. This quote supports the opportunities that Bill Gates had, as a young man who was able to discover computer programming. Which made him the computer legend. If it weren't for those opportunities that life handed him his name wouldn't of been as

unforgettable.

In addition. It is important when people are born. “Scott Wasden was born on January 4, within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player. . He was one of the lucky ones. If the eligibility date for Canadian hockey were later in the year, he might have been watching the Memorial Cup championship from the stands instead of playing on the ice. This quote shows that not everyone is able to play on Canadian Hockey Team if they are born after the end of the year.This has limited the chances for many people to ever become part of a professional hockey player. Now we can see that being born on a specific day , month , or year cant impact anyone's chances of success.

Also out parentage and cultural legacies have a impact for success.

“ this person’s parents will have done meaningful work in the garment business, passing on their children's autonomy and complexity and the connection between effort and reward”. This quote talks about Joe Flom’s the last living “named” partner of the law. Joe’s father taught him that if he works hard he can achieve any desires or ambitions. Sine Joe’s father has taught him right, it lead to Joe having a professional career as a lawyer.” They are the kind of places where, for hundreds of years,penniless peasants, slaving away in the rice paddies three thousand hours a year,said things to one another like, ‘No one can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty years fails to make his family rich.’” This quote advocates that china's legacy has the highest emphasis on hard work and effort. This explains why asians are known to be good at

math.

Lastly, the most truly important piece of becoming successful is not done alone, but rather with the help along the way. “ It is impossible for a Hockey Player, or Billy Joy, or Robert Oppenheimer, or any other outlier for that matter, to look down from their lofty perch and say with truthfulness, ‘I did this, all by myself’” All the opportunities life gives them, their specific time of birth, their patronage and cultural legacies are the help they get along the way to be known as someone who has been successful. The support of family and friends is by all means the first most important aspect to motivate anyone to have a desire to succeed.