Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

Throughout the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, the author, defines what he thinks is success. Gladwell defines success by using small stories of real people, who eventually became successful, such as the Beatles, Bill Gates, and so many more. The author also at the end provided and anecdote of how his mom became successful.

Just by reading the title of the the book Outliers: The Story of Success, a reader can already imagine what’s to come. They would probably think that they’re about to get great tips on how to be successful, or maybe they’re thinking how the book is about to be about the author’s story of success. So many things came to my mind as I read the title, but I was not prepared for what I was about to read.

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Michiko Kakutani is one of the critics who believes that all of his examples were obsolete, and although Gladwell has a variety of valid points about success, Kakutani has a great theory against him. Throughout her article called It’s True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help, which was published in the New York Times, Kakutani expressed her beliefs on Gladwell’s Outliers. She states that “ Gladwell suggests that children from wealthy or middle class backgrounds are more likely to succeed than those from impoverished ones.” (Kakutani), which does seem true. Almost every example wishing the book Gladwell states what type of background or ethnicity that they came from. Most of them came from middle class and the higher class. This provided the readers of the book to only process that if someone is poor they’ll never have the opportunity to succeed, but in other scenarios this has been proven to be dishonest. For instance, Jennifer Lopez, was homeless by the age of 18. She began to dance and she caught a major gig, and now she is very