Outliers Gladwell Analysis

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Everyone in the world should have the same quality of opportunities to become successful. Life is tough, this person has a lot of opportunities from when she was born, but the other person is having a hard life, she has a few opportunities and cannot become successful. William Arthur Ward, an author, said, “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” Opportunities are not something that suddenly appear in front of your face, it is not something that we have to conjure someone to give it to you. Opportunities are something that gives you a chance to help you become successful. In Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he has been discussing his idea about success, that success is the result of various opportunities that are …show more content…
She got many opportunities such as family background, meaningful work, and turned disadvantages to advantages. Therefore, I agree with Gladwell’s view on success because Marie Curie’s opportunities contributed and led her to become successful as Gladwell’s view about success.
Marie Curie’s first opportunity that contributed her success in her life was family background, which is support Gladwell’s theory about success. In “The Trouble with Genius, Part II” in Outliers, Gladwell talking about Christopher Langan, smartest man in the world, being a genius. But he can not success, because he had problem with his family background. He never finished college and reached high level of education. He was a bouncer through his adult year and lived on a farm. He grew up in a family that was poor and wasn’t happy, his mom wasn’t supporting him at all, and his dad was dead or either disappeared. Langan said “To this day I haven't met anybody who was as poor when they were kids as our family was,” (Gladwell 91). Langan had some issues with his college life. His first college was Reed College, he said: “It was a huge mistake” (Gladwell 92), he can not