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Factors of Success
Gladwell's organization is structured and easy to follow. The book is comprised of chapters made up of subsections with easy to understand pictures and diagrams.
-Gladwell was born in Foreham, Hampsire, England.
-Son to a British mathematics professor and a Jamaican psychotherapist.
-1982: Malcolm interned at the National Journalism Center in Washington D.C.
-1984: Malcolm graduated from the University of Toronto's Trinity College with a degree in history.
1. Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Back Bay, 2008. Print.
2. Gladwell, Malcolm. "Q and A with Malcolm." Gladwell.com. N.p., 2014. Web. 10 Nov. 2014.
When studying the success of an individual we should look at the world that surrounds them, not just their ambition, intelligence or personality characteristics.
"Instead I'm going to tell a series of stories from the New York immigrant world that Joe Flom grew up in, in hopes of answering a critical question." (Gladwell 120)
Gladwell's diction in the book is informal to establish a connection with the reader.
He explains things simply in a way that easily makes sense.
Gladwell's tone through out the book is didactic. Throughout the book he is constantly informing the reader with new information.
"In Outliers, I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing." (Gladwell 19)
Gladwell is clearly telling the reader something. Though he uses 'convince' he is really attempting to educate whoever may be reading.
"In the case of Outliers, the book grew out a frustration I found myself having with the way we explain the careers of really successful people."
"It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations."
"And how did he get there?" (Gladwell 137)
"--the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other tress blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds." (Gladwell 19)
"When he was fifteen, he could match Jimi Hendrix lick for lick on a guitar. Boom. Boom. Boom." (Gladwell 71)
Gladwell has a talent of popularizing somewhat obvious social science ideas through collecting entertaining anecdotes.
- The success of people.
- How we form opinions of people within the first meeting.
-How epidemics work.