Outlier

1. The large difference between how I accommodate thought and understood success compargond to the way Malcolm Gladwell argues is the great deal and families that create success. Previous to reading this book, I strongly confided that the way to pop off productive was to put in hard work. For example, my system to success was similar on the lines to what Malcolm Gladwell discusses earlier in the book. He says, Practice isnt the thing you do once youre good. Its the thing you do that makes you good(Gladwell, 2008). I believed if you nice what you want to be successful at everyday, you would eventually end up reaching your goal.However, after reading Malcolm Gladwells opinion my beliefs are now different. one and only(a) of the more important examples Malcolm Gladwell mentions that showed how different I thought was the success story of buck Gates. I personally believed that Bill Gates was successful only because he was an intelligent man who was driven by hard work and his g oal to create the personal ready reckoner. Previous to this novel my only education on Bill Gates was from reading short articles about him and from what I have heard from friends and teachers. What I did not know about Bill Gates was his devoted mount and the support from his family and others.Malcolm Gladwell mentions that in that location important opportunities that were incredible lucky series of events(Gladwell, 2008), that created his success. Some of the opportunities Bill Gates was given were his free computer while at the University of majuscule(Gladwell, 2008) and also previous to that his mother along with others had enough money to pay for his high school Lakesides computer fees(Gladwell, 2008). Without the circumstance of Bill Gates receiving free computer time, chances are he wouldnt have been nearly as intelligent and innovative with computers as he is today.To reiterate Malcolm Gladwells argument about tiptop achievers are successful because of their familie s, in Bill Gates circumstance it is true. He wouldnt have had the prospect to practice with computers at a young hop on if his mother couldnt afford to pay for the schools computer fees. Based on Bill Gates example Malcolm Gladwell writes about, it creates a credible argument to how he believes how to become successful. I did not even consider before reading this novel that family and the fortunate circumstances you are given are a substantial activate to ones success.However, now it is crucial that it is not overlooked. 2. In my opinion, the cultural language in the United States varies across the country depending on where you are from. I believe that in some regions of the United States the cultural language is similar to the language represented by the co-pilot Koltz in The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes(Gladwell, 2008). However, I also believe in other vicinities in the United States the cultural language is outgoing and in the situation presented in the plane crash chapter, the cultural language would have been much more extrovert.The cultural language across the United States has emerged and evolved based on where you and your parents are from and how you were raised. Moments before the plane Avianca 052(Gladwell, 2008) crashed after running out of fuel, Co-Pilot Mauricio Klotz try to warn Kennedy Airport that their airplane did not have the sufficient amount of fuel to land. However, because Klotz was using his own cultural language, the controllers were not able to report the trouble Avianca 052 was really in. I believe Klotzs mitigated speech during this problem is similar to some cultural languages in the United States.For example, Malcolm Gladwell discusses Robert Sternbergs theory of hardheaded intelligence(Gladwell, 2008). To Sternberg, practical intelligence is knowledge that helps out read situations correctly and get what you want(Gladwell, 2008). It is clear that Klotzs cultural language lacked practical intelligence. However, I believe numerous glossinesss in the United States also lack the same intelligence. Malcolm Gladwell recalls a study where Annette Lareau conducted a fascinating study of a radical of third graders(Gladwell, 2008). Results of the study showed that lower-class children are quiet and submissive(Gladwell, 2008).Therefore, children and adults who are from lower-class families very well could have responded the same way Klotz did during a time of emergency. The cultural language of the United States can also be outgoing and far from quiet and submissive. Malcolm Gladwell discusses the South and the personalities people possess there. From results of an experiment, it had shown that Southerners were more unforced to stand up for themselves. The experiment consisted of calling them an asshole to see if it caused their levels of testosterone and cortisol-the hormones that drive arousal and aggression-to go up (Gladwell, 2008).The results were the Southerners were angry, their cortisol and testoste rone jumped. Their handshakes got firm. It is easy to predict how a Southerner would have reacted to a plane moments way from crashing if they react strongly to simply being called a derogatory name. My guess is that if a Southerner was a co-pilot, the controllers at Kennedy Airport would have understood the trouble the airplane was in. I believe our vast cultural language derived from what Malcolm Gladwell would call the nuance of honor(Gladwell, 2008).The culture of honor describes people behave the way they do because of where you grew up or where your parents grew upwhere your great-grandparents and your great-great-grandparents grew up and even where your great-great-great-grandparents grew up(Gladwell, 2008). This explains our difference in the United States culture because the majority of the people living in the United States families were once immigrants. People come from all over the world to live in the U. S. and that is why are culture is different from any others.I bel ieve our vast cultural language works in favor with our social structure because it matches with the supply and demand of our economy. For example, there are plenty of jobs in the United States where people who respect their superiors and are afraid to speak up can work. Also, there are opportunities to open up your own business if you contain traits similar to Malcolm Gladwells example of a Southerner and do not mesh well with being told what to do. 3. When Gladwell says that biologists talk about the bionomics of an organism he is referring to why legitimate organisms are more successful than others.Malcolm Gladwell is inferring that the tallest oak in the timberland is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn(Gladwell, 2008). It is the tallest oak in the forest because of many more reasons. Reasons that include luck and some things that cannot be controlled. For example, when discussing about oak trees, Gladwell mentions that one oak tree is the tallest beca use no other tree block off its sunlightno rabbit chewed through its bark and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured(Gladwell, 2008).Gladwells point of the ecology of this certain tree is that is it the most successful because of certain circumstances it was placed in. The Matthew Effect or also known as accumulative advantage is when those who are successful are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success(Gladwell, 2008). Malcolm Gladwells example of accumulative advantage is hockey thespians and how at a young age they achieve success. Gladwell discusses that the professional hockey player starts out a little bit better than his peers.And that little difference leads to an opportunity that makes that difference a bit bigger(Gladwell, 2008). An important implication of the hockey example is that the similarities in the age of the hockey players who have had success. The majority of the hockey players in Canada are born in January, February, and March(Gladwell, 2008). Because of the fact that these professional hockey players were born in the beginning of the year they had an advantage over those who were born afterwards in the year.The reason why they have an advantage is because when they were young they were bigger and more matured than those who were born later in the year. Since that these hockey players were bigger than the other kids they were given the opportunity to play hockey at more of an elite level. This is a prime example of The Matthew Effect and it explains that ones who are successful are given more opportunities to be more successful. However, accumulative advantage and ecology both are very similar.For example, along with the accumulative advantage in the hockey player instance there is also ecology to it. As mentioned earlier, the ecology of an organism is lucky or uncontrollable circumstances that occur. For the most part, the date of birth of a person is often uncontrollable and is not often planned. Accumulative advantage and ecology as seen in this example, are often correlated with one another. In both the Matthew Effect and the ecology and an organism, people are given a better opportunity. References Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers. New York Little,Brown and Company.