Malcolm Gladwell's, Outliers, presents to readers a type of people who do not fit in with people who are called outliers. These people are those who are exceptional at what they do and how they do it. Outliers are people with intelectual or physical gifts which are unconciously prepared by adults at a young age so that they may surpass everyone else. This is shown in how in some hockey teams the players are mostly born in the first months of the year due to cot off dates. These cut off dates make other players born in other months to have to be limited to lower playing teams due to a loss of valuable practice hours. There is also a trouble with geniuses who also have headstarts due to connections with important people who get them into important situations. This can also be seen with Bill Joy which is probably the greatest legend of computer programming. If it had not been for his connections which he possessed then he may not have able to gain access to the computer or even if his age varied by a few years he would not have been known. Even though people think that these people were born to do what they do, the real truth would be that they were tat the right lace at the right time.
What would the world be like without outliers or extrordinary people like them?
Does Gladwell use a difference in tone to refer to outliers and to regular people?
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Good Question Kayla.
ReplyDeleteI mean one way or another i think successful people would evolve because everyone has a talent.
-I dont think he uses a different tone, but when he refers to outliers he uses a calm tone to analyze them.
I think that the world would be the same without outliers. Even without computer programming geniuses, someone would have sooner or later developed a program. All of the developments that happened due to outliers would have probably happened anyway.
ReplyDeleteGladwell uses the same tone to refer to outliers. He treats outliers as normal people who excel at what they do because of the practice and luck that they possess.