Outliers: Understanding Success Through Opportunities

Have you ever wondered how people became successful? You might think it just happens on it own. In “ Outliers” I want to convince you that those personal explanations of success don’t work. People don’t rise from nothing. In Contrast, this book masters to explain that we become successful by the opportunities that come around to us. The book also tells you how if your born on a certain month or even in what family you come from from can help you identify how you can achieve success.

For example, the opportunities that allow us to become successful are necessary. “There was a C-Cubed and the payroll stuff we did,then TWR- all those things came together. I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of a incredibly lucky series of events. This quote supports the opportunities that Bill Gates had, as a young man who was able to discover computer programming. Which made him the computer legend. If it weren't for those opportunities that life handed him his name wouldn't of been as

“ this person’s parents will have done meaningful work in the garment business, passing on their children's autonomy and complexity and the connection between effort and reward”. This quote talks about Joe Flom’s the last living “named” partner of the law. Joe’s father taught him that if he works hard he can achieve any desires or ambitions. Sine Joe’s father has taught him right, it lead to Joe having a professional career as a lawyer.” They are the kind of places where, for hundreds of years,penniless peasants, slaving away in the rice paddies three thousand hours a year,said things to one another like, ‘No one can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty years fails to make his family rich.’” This quote advocates that china's legacy has the highest emphasis on hard work and effort. This explains why asians are known to be good at