Book Report On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

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An outlier is someone that has come out of the ordinary and can own knowledge that others may not. These outliers grew up in the perfect time frame to use that knowledge to their largest extent. While reading the book Outliers something became very clear to me. That every outlier named within the book’s pages lived through a series of events that led them on the perfect path to success. Therefor this made me question if success is luck.
Why do I believe that success is luck? Malcolm Gladwell begins his story by explaining the importance of birth dates. It wasn’t noticed until the 1980’s that children born earlier in the year are more likely to become more successful. Every successful hockey player was born in the months of January through May. The five most successful computer geniuses in the world were all born between 1953 to 1956, the perfect year to start programing in the dawn of computers. …show more content…
Gladwell uses a biologists analogy or point of view on success by talking about the tallest oak in the forest. “No other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured”. He is comparing this oak tree to these successful outliers. The way I see it is the outliers or “oak trees” were lucky to not be blocked from the sunlight, have good soil, and no rabbit or lumberjack hurting
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