Sehun Oh 11th grade
October 19, 2017
Outliers ‘5-Paragraph Essay Assignment’ Someone, who comes from low origins, breaks out of his inherited social position and climbs up the social ladder for himself, is called as self-made man. In the Outliers, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, asserts “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” This quote implies people can be succeed only with their intrinsic factors and admits concept of self-made man. However, the 11 chapters of Outliers prove that extrinsic factors must be required to be succeed and deny concept of self-made man. Therefore, according to the Outliers, the quotation from Gladwell seems illogical. First of all, without getting opportunity to practice 10,000 hours, people cannot be success. In the chapter 2, Gladwell claims preparation is more important than innate talent: “the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.” Also, for enough preparation, people have to get opportunity for practicing 10,000 hours which is one of extrinsic factor. This is because basically…show more content… In the chapter 8, Gladwell proves why the Asian people are good at math by using the information about their cultural legacy. One of the Asian’s cultural legacy is hard working is correlated to success. This is because Asian’s agriculture is “skill oriented” that means for increasing their yields they have to do hard work and improve their cultivating skills. According to their agricultural style, they realized hard working is correlated to success. Also, in order to be good at math, people have to consistently do hard working. According to their ancestor, Asians learned hard work is correlated to success, so they study hard and steadily to be good at math. Therefore, Gladwell’s assertion is
