Wednesday, December 23, 2009

First Precis Paragraph to Outliers

In the first 100 pages in The nonfiction book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, He proposed a different view of success and how people become successful. His argument began by providing an example of a Junior hockey team and he gives his audience what they all have in common. The majority of the players in the Junior hockey team was born in the month of January, February and March that is because the cut off date to join a team is January 1st, so those who was born in the earlier part of the year has an advantage of more practice hours and more physical developments than those kids who were born in the later part of the year. Gladwell initiates that the best of the Hockey players did not become the best because of their talent but rather because of their birth months. Gladwell later continued his theory of success by providing examples of "The 10,000-Hour Rule" by giving examples of Computer Geniuses, for example Bill Joy and Bill Gates and because of unusual opportunities, they were all able to get 10,000 hours of practice. Gladwell continues to give examples of successful people who were able to get 10,000 hours of practice due to lucky opportunities that was put before them, he gave example of The Beatles, Mozart, Elite young violin players (Gladwell did not however explained the unusual opportunities that they was given to the violin players but they are however on a rate to practice for 10,000 hours). Gladwell went to state that some people became successful because of the year they was born by giving valid evidence to support his idea. The Majority of Successful computer programers was born between 1953-1957 and the Majority of successful billionaires in the nineteenth century was born in the decade of the 1830s. The First 100 pages concluded with the chapter labeled "The Troubled with Geniuses" the chapter highlighted Chris Langan has its main subject but Gladwell transitioned to questioning IQ testing and the S.A.T and he claims IQ testing doesn't matter as long as a person is smart enough to do something his IQ is irrelevant. He reasoned this by comparing it to basketball, Gladwell says as long as you are tall enough to play basketball then you skills becomes accounted for. So far his purpose seems that he wants to provide a different way we see success and his audience might be a more mature not relatively 11th graders but middle age adults whom view success in broad manner and without putting too much thought in it.

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