The Recipe for Success

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Success can be determined in various ways. There are many formulas that people can try to calculate a person’s chance of achieving success. As stated in the book Outliers, by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, there are many factors that determine success. Gladwell after all is successful. He has published five books, was named one of Times magazine 100 most influential people, and won the American Sociological Association's first award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. Gladwell published his third book Outliers examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Malcolm Gladwell uses logical appeals, facts and statistics from very well-known successful people, and emotional appeal to the reader to make them realize that they cannot become successful in their field unless they combine a number of factors to become successful. Whether it is something that the person can control like the 10,000 hours or something that is out of the person’s hands like when they were born Gl...

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