The Theme Of Success In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

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Outliers is a book that explains how successful people got their success. To explain this, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, collects data about said successful people, and finds and analyzes patterns in the data. He argues that people don’t find success by themselves; they find success through their environment and other factors around them. Their circumstance gives them opportunities, which they are ambitious and hard-working enough to seize. Gladwell explains success in two ways: through people’s opportunities and through the legacies that they’ve inherited. One way that people gain opportunities is through when they were born. People born near cut-off dates are often more successful than those who aren’t, due to their perceived maturity