Research Paper On Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell stated in his book, Outliers, that “There’s no such thing as a self-made man and that super achievers are successful because of their circumstances, their families, and their appetite for hard work,” to explain countless stories of how success could be determined by a person’s culture, month they were born, and parent’s profession and without these success, could or should not be accomplished. He goes to describe stories of Korean pilots, chess masters, and IQ “geniuses” in support of his thesis and for the most part, the two seem to fit almost perfectly. However, this does not coexist with the common law of human nature because as its namesake, these are the true “outliers”. In everyday life, people born in January are not

Early in his article, he describes the self-made man as “Self-made men are the men who, under peculiar difficulties and without the ordinary helps of favoring circumstances, have attained knowledge, usefulness, power and position and have learned from themselves the best uses to which life can be put in this world, and in the exercises of these uses to build up worthy character”. This clearly supports the idea of a man who can overcome his circumstances, without help can become successful, contrary to ideas argued in Malcolm’s Outliers. Douglas then goes on to discuss the aspects of a self-made man and different theories of why they are so successful, none of which align with the theories discussed in Outliers. For example, to support his idea that a self-made man exists to any extent of success and whatever the race, Douglass uses the idea

The statement that some achieve greatness while others are born great gives testament to the fact that self-made man, are in fact, prominent in today's society because not everyone is born with connections or the lifestyle that they need to be successful. So they must work to achieve their greatness and success. One of the more well-known stories of men rising from troubled beginnings to becoming successful in their own terms is the story of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream company. After both men had dropped out of college or denied admissionstration to advanced in his studies, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, two childhood friends, united over their love for ice cream and bought a small run-down gas station where the roof was always leaking and falling apart. After they had bought their new ice cream factory, they were constantly in debt and living from scoop to scoop due to the expensive repairs to their roof and plumbing, how hard it was to advertise their ice cream, and trying to get people to come to their store. Cohen and Greenfield were constantly chasing after business deals that turned out to be short term, which affected them financially. It was not until many years later where they developed a system for small grocery stores on the way to larger restaurants where they would also sell their ice cream. After