Since childhood, students are told to work towards a goal or to improve a specific skill for it. However, after reading the first two chapters of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I noticed that it could not be worked on your entire life. It’s only a mere coincidence of opportunities and success based on events they have partaken in. Once the opportunity comes up, they are quickly taken and are used to be led into success. Famous celebrities such as sportsmen, actors or political figure can say it was because they have worked hard for it, but it is often overused as an excused. However, there are examples of people who have taken the advantage of situations, the outliers in the working society. Writers, artists, musicians or any sort of people can take advantage of people’s emotions and what is becoming an issue in modern day life. From my previous view, it was only to work hard towards a goal, but now it is seen differently. Success is not an objective in an individual’s life, but a coincidence or opportunity. Outliers use the opportunity that they are conscious of, and thus work with it to succeed. They took a different angle of their goal and were able to achieve it. There is an unknown benefactor that allows individuals to take up upon. It often doesn’t show as many would claim that it is a self-worked success. Malcolm Gladwell stated the hidden advantages and opportunities “allows them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.”. (Outliers 19). It is important for individuals to learn from a different point of view in life, using that perspective to perceive in their work a different angle. They then are able to use that advantage to succeed into their goal. There is one thing I saw about success was a certain, popular Facebook page. It in itself is an outlier of a coincidental from looking at things in a different perspective. Originally a project, Humans of New York became a voice for various number of people who struggle, individuals who want to be listen, or just a happy, casual conversation between the interviewer and interviewee. How this page became so popular was because it touches the issues that are currently on going. It brought people together on a common interest; war, depression, love, sexuality, anything that is a current issue to modern society, a sad and painful thought, or a fluffy, warm feeling. It became an outlier because of its opportunity it can do just by connecting many people around the world with a picture and a story. Opportunity can arrive at a certain time or era; in this case it can happen with age. Depending on when you were born, it can influence the knowledge of a situation. Take for example, the year of the richest Americans in human history. They had all been born between 1830 and 1840. (Outliers 62). It could not have been a simple coincidence, they were born in those specific years and made it to the top just because they were born at the right time. They grew up into the right moment, at the right time and took the opportunity once it became available to them. In addition, it may be seen as a “what about it?” scenario, in reality it is quite important. To many it seems like a coincidence, but it matched up with the time the economy was taking a turn. The reason was because, “If you were born in the late 1840’s
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When the computer was introduced, it was new and developing. Take for example, the leading developers of the beginning of the computer age Bill Gates, Paul Allen; They were born between 1953 and 1958. It was to illustrate their entire story was “about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of the society.”. (Outliers 67). Depending on the age in 1975, their understanding of the way the computer’s purpose in creating and developing technology allowed them to chase after it. Without their opportunity in this new technology, most of what we have would possibly have been underdeveloped and behind by a few
When the computer was introduced, it was new and developing. Take for example, the leading developers of the beginning of the computer age Bill Gates, Paul Allen; They were born between 1953 and 1958. It was to illustrate their entire story was “about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of the society.”. (Outliers 67). Depending on the age in 1975, their understanding of the way the computer’s purpose in creating and developing technology allowed them to chase after it. Without their opportunity in this new technology, most of what we have would possibly have been underdeveloped and behind by a few