Category: Malcolm Gladwell

The notion of the self made man is defined as having achieved success or prominence by ones own efforts. This is what many big entrepreneurs claim when they talk about their success: being a self made man. We as a society have come to believe that the self-made man attains their success through education, hard…

Questions The subtitle of Malcolm Gladwells article asks, How different are dogfighting and football? Does he explicitly answer the question? What does he think? What do you think? In his article, Gladwell doesnt explicitly answer the question but he hints that football is similar to dogfighting as well as stock-car racing. On page 655, Gladwell…

All success stories have roots that run deep that determine to what extent they will succeed, and how they achieved that success. In Outliers, Gladwells second chapter highlights one of those trends as spending a lot of time practicing and working on their craft. Gladwell cites studies and sociologists who state that for an individual…

Maybe a few years ago, people were still strange to the Internet. It seems to be at the top of high technology, which makes many people felt out of reach. But today, it is already in every corner of the society, it is no longer a distant or an unfamiliar thing. In a society with…

The introduction to Malcolm Gladwells book is aptly titled Goliath. That is to say, the author retells the famous legend in his own way here, mixing the biblical facts with nuggets of historically accurate (as Gladwell claims) facts to show that the moral of the story is not as it appears to be at the…

In chapter one of Malcolm Gladwells book David & Goliath, Gladwell makes an argument of how there are advantages of disadvantages and also disadvantages of advantages. He continues in the chapter with some examples proving his statement by using Vivek Ranadive coaching his daughters basketball team, as well as political scientist Ivan Arreguin-Tofts example of…

David and Goliath are a novel by Malcolm Gladwell, this novel discusses the sociology of underdogs, misfits and the art of battling the giants. David and Goliath indicate two main points, they are lopsided battles that sometimes ended with an underdog of victories as it may seem. In other words, the true capabilities of our…

Gladwells novel Outliers is about how practice and talent play a role in success, but opportunities and social standing is what makes a true outlier. An example of an outlier would be Jim Carrey, Carrey is an exceptional Canadian-American actor, impressionist, comedian, producer, and screenwriter. As many say, Jim Carrey is the Man of a…

This book talks about the importance of instincts and snap judgements and how they can be a very influential moment in someone’s life. Throughout the book the author argues this important concept where he states that people can make better, effective decisions based on their snap judgements instead of a more rational thought process. Everyday…

We all have a certain perception of success. We all think we know what success looks like. People that hold this title seem to be placed into a specific form; that all of them started with nothing and worked their way up the system, however, the author shows us otherwise. In Malcolm Gladwells Outliers, it…