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Outliers What is the overall purpose or point of this book' Response: How ever did the triumphant and victorious people of this world become well, so successful. What is it about them' Is it maybe just out of coincidence they just got lucky. There are many other people who work just as hard as they do, and are just as intelligently capable as they are. Is there a enigma to the astounding accomplishments of the Beatles, Bill Gates, and businessmen who were born in the 1830s, but not the 1840s' Maybe. This book, Outliers, endeavors to answer all these questions using sociological, cultural, and generational investigation presented in a fairly simple understanding. In this book, Malcom Gladwell repeatedly asks the question, what makes high achievers different from others' During the book we discover the answer to be is that people are wasting time paying too much attention and putting forth too much of their effort to how successful people live there lives. To when they should be focusing more on themselves and their background of life, such as, where they came from, where the grew up, their beloved ones. They should be spending more time worrying about living their generation, and not trying to live like someone else. There are two parts to the book, the first part is called “Opportunity”, which consists of five chapters, and part two, called “Legacy”, which consists of four chapters. Ouliers also consists of an introduction in the beginning of the book, and also and epilogue. As we understand Outliers deals with those successful and exceptional people of this world, especially those who consist of all three triumphant qualities: smart, rich and successful, and then of course there are those who function and live along the lines of what is statistically doable. How does the author go about supporting his point' Response: In Order for Malcom Gladwell to support and prove his point, he needed facts. So Gladwell went on interviewing a numerous amount of different and unique successful people of the world. Going in to a more profound detail, the book presents examples that include of many different, but commonly known, successful people of this world, such as, The Beatles, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. As we already know, Malcom Gladwell lays out the overall purpose and theme of the book in the introduction of the book, “It's not enough to ask what successful people are like. [...] It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.". All the way through the Outliers, Malcom Gladwell converses and talks about how family, culture, and friendship each have their very own duty or responsibility in an individual's success, and Malcom Gladwell continuously is asking the very specific question of whether or not those triumphant and successful people of this world really truly ought to have the praise and admiration that others, just as smart and hard working, give them. Part one, Opportunity begins with Gladwell's discovery and finding on why a inconsistent number of professional Canadian hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year. The answer that Gladwell, after long research, comes up with is that since youth hockey leagues establish eligibility by calendar year, children born on January the first play in the same league as those born on December the thirty-first in the same year. Players that are born much earlier in the year are much stronger and more mature than those younger players. Then because of this, it then leads to extra training and practicing and being able to qualify for elite hockey leagues. This leads us to the saying, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer". Outliers commits to emphasizing that success depends on the eccentricity of the selection and qualification process used to recognize ability just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities. Gladwell also took his time to explore other people and their keys and ways to how they became successful. Such as, Bill Gates. Like the Beatles, Bill Gates also met the 10,000 hour rule. When Bill Gates was at the age of thirteen he achieved access to a high school computer and spent over 10,000 hours working and programming it. Gladwell also interviewed and compared the lives of many different and unique successful people of this world. Such as Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Langan, and man who grew up on merely but a horse farm, and Oppenheimer, a man who was successful at the beginning of his early childhood days. Langan was different and unique from the rest of the successful world, he had to find success and fortune himself, and find happiness with in his own life. Oppenheimer had all the qualities layed out for him to make him successful. He grew up wealthy and lived in a wealthy and promising city, Manhattan. So yes, Oppenheimer’s upbringing and childhood made a drastic difference to his current successful life. Yes, the overall theme of the book is success and fortune, however, Gladwell makes it quite clear that genius is not standing in the way at all of a persons success and accomplishments. Langan obviously didn’t find or come close to success due to his work, but he found success in himself alone. . In the end, success is either justified, inherited, some earned, and then there are those who ends up being just plain lucky. Which Chapter, example, or illustration from the book do you think best supports the author’s point' Explain how this mode of support is particularly effective. Response: Malcom Gladwell uses an excellent example which most definitely pertains to his overall theme and point of the book. A common thesis or subject that is repeatedly found throughout the whole book is the "10,000-Hour Rule". The 10,000 hour rule was best used by the Beatles. The Beatles ended up traveling back and forth a numerous amount of times to Hamburg between 1960 and the end of 1962. In Hamburg, Germany on only their first trip, they played exactly one-hundred and six nights, of five or more hours a night. On their second encounter to Hamburg, Germany they performed exactly ninety-two times. The Beatles third trip to Hamburg, Germany, they performed forty-eight times. As a whole that’s a stropping number of exactly 172 hours if playing time on stage. The last two times the Beatles got to perform live in Hamburg, Germany together as a whole band was in November and December of 1962. The Beatles were then involved with another 90 hours of performing and playing time. As a whole they performed for two-hundred and seventy nights in only just over a year and a half! Overall the Beatles performed 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964, gaining more than 10,000 hours of playing time, therefore meeting the 10,000-Hour Rule. Malcom Gladwell is most certain that because of the 10,000 hours of playing time the Beatles managed to accomplish, is the reason why their talent progressed so much and is why they became so successful in what they did. Malcom Gladwell points out a numerous amount of times in the book that achieving the 10,00 hour rule is the literally the key to success in any field of profession. Gladwell believes this is truly the key to what separated the Beatles arch way to success from other successful people of this world. Attack, defend, or qualify the overall assertion that Gladwell makes in this book using your own observations, experience, or knowledge as support for your argument. Response: Basically, the overall declaration or point Gladwell is trying to get across to the reader is that all the facts and details prior book are all but mere attempts to cause us to stop and take a second to view the world a little differently for a change. Basically, Outliers analyzes and explores into the deep understanding of how much of a group project success actually is. Outliers is a group project or contribution you could say. The book is made up of many numerous contributions, and facts from many diverse and unique people who have all traveled the journey of success. Whether that being fame and prosperity or inner success which lies down in the very depths of your soul. As for me, my success is in my work, and my hobbies. I take much pride and joy in my work for school and I spend hours on end making sure I have that test down. I put forth 110% effort in to everything and anything put in front of me. I am my own over achiever. I have worked very hard long hours to get to where I am now. I remember Math used to be my weakest strain and after 2 years of tutoring, I have never had a struggle. That therefore proves the 10,000 hour rule. Now, I don’t think I have done 10,000 hours of Mathematics, but I would say I’m fairly close. Outliers is the perfect key to success. It's because of the contributions of many different successful people and lots of unique circumstances that got them there and that means that we, as a civilization, have more jurisdiction about who succeeds, and how many of us succeed.