Outliers chunk 1

In the first chunk of the non fitctional book "Outliers" author Malcolm Gladwell argues our views of success are incorect and wants to give us a better understanding of how to become successful. In order to become successful you need to have talent and abilty; you can't buy your way into a prosperous life. It takes time and effort to develop "the ability". Outliers is based on men and women who do things out of the ordinary. Asking a successful person about him/herself is not how that person reached the top. He wants to convince us that the fallacy "from nothing to something' does not work. There are hidden advantages and beneficial opportunities given. There is a difference made depending on where and time period we grew up. What is passed down through generations shape patterns of our acheivements. Passion, talent, and hard work is also expected. He uses an anecdote and discusses about the life of the Rosettan people that came here to America and the studies that doctor Stewart Wolf was performing to them. This research and studies help Wolf give people the understanding of health, and the same way with this book Malcolm Gladwell was giving people the understanding of success. Gladwell then begins to discuss the success of famous hockey players, how many of them became successful for the opportunity of practice that was given to them and also for the fact of being born during January-April. It also does this and discusses this with examples of the Beatles, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, and etc., that they got their success from the opportunities given to them. The Beatles got their chance at success when they began playing at a cheap club, it meant nothing playing their but they got practice by playing everyday which made them become successful. Bill Gates got his success by the 9 opportunities that Gladwell list for use and for getting unlimited time programming the computers, the more he programmed the more he became an expert at it. The same for many other including the Billionaires, they were born at the right times when there were beginning new approaches and took advantage of them, and were successful at it. This shows that people who are successful are not born with it the obtain it throughout time and practice. That many of this people have their success for coincidence