Hannah Choi Instructor Cox ENGL 1C 18 December 2014 Essay #5 At the age of five, Ingmar Lazar started playing the piano. A year later, he made his debut in Paris. He has then been in many competitions and received numerous awards for his incredible performances. Regarded as a child prodigy, Ingmar Lazar has had very advanced skills since a young age that many people are envious of. But what makes him different from everybody else? Is it due to his innate ability to play piano or is it the countless hours he spent practicing since he has started? Malcom Gladwell’s “Outliers” explores the idea of how certain people and situations came to be out of the ordinary. In one of his chapters, “the 10,000-Hour Rule,” he explains that people are not born …show more content…
Essentially, Gladwell is saying that people who excel at something are successful due to their hours and hours of practice. Specifically, he argues that anybody can excel at anything once they have practiced 10,000 hours of doing that particular thing. However, how does that explain Lazar’s success? From the age five to six, there are only 8,765 hours in between. Disregarding the hours he had used to sleep and eat, there is no way he could have practiced for over 10,000 hours. Nonetheless, Lazar was considered a prodigy, a genius, and a success. Success can be achieved within 10,000 hours and failure can also happen after 10,000 hours. The 10,000-hour sounds convincing and truthful, but there is no correlation between the hours of practice one does and their ability to do a certain skill. We must look at other …show more content…
Though Gladwell says that researchers have settled 10,000 hours as the magic number to achieve true expertise (40), Ericcson’s study concludes that the best players have practiced on-average 7,606 hours by age 18 (379). On average can mean a variety of things. First and foremost, that does not make 10,000 hours, let alone 7,606 hours, the absolute number of hours that someone has have to practice in order to be considered the best. Ericcson’s study shows that the best players have practiced a tremendous amount more than the ones who had more of a less-likely future as a professional violinist. However, after the average of 7,606, these players were and are considered to be the best in their generation. If the players that were shown to become teachers practiced for around 7,606, but in a longer span of time, would they also be considered an expert at playing the violin? Or is expertise achieved through completing 10,000 hours of an activity within a short span of time? Gladwell insists upon this set number, but the number can mean absolutely nothing if time is disregarded. The best playing students played on average 585 hours a year. However, if the students that have a future in teaching completed 7,606 hours but through averaging 292.5 hours a year, they would still be considered teachers. The 10,000-hour rule shows hard work and dedication towards a field, but it is only a true means of
The book “Outsiders” in written by Malcolm Gladwell and it is about the stories of extremely successful people. In this book he discusses this thing called the 10,000 hour rule. I do not believe in the 10,000 hour rule.
In the book, Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell in 2008, he suggests in order to become a successful person in the world, you have to certain hidden advantages or chances that others didn't have. Gladwell supports his claim by using real life examples about success such as "Seventeen out of twenty-five players on the team were born in January, February, March, or April" (23) to why certain hockey players in Canada become great and then on page 46 when he states how Bill Joy "probably programmed eight to ten hours a day" because the "Michigan system happened to have a bug in it", which allowed him to "program as much as he wanted" and led to him becoming something special and finally throughout chapter 2 when he uses Chris Langen as an example
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This Woman Reads 100 Books in a Month (And How You Can Too) Last month, Therese embarked on a challenge to read 100 nonfiction titles with the Blinkist app. Here's how she did. by Sandra Wu | Dec 1 2016 Meet Therese, she’s a business development manager living in Berlin, Germany. Last month, she managed to read over 100 nonfiction titles in psychology, politics and leadership.
Malcolm Gladwell writes a powerful book in Outliers that really makes us think about success and what it takes to be successful. Gladwell’s claim that the upper middle class has more opportunities than the poor rests upon the questionable assumption that individuals with an upper middle class background do not have to work hard to be successful. Therefore, we should reconsider Gladwell’s claim because successful people still had to work hard and seize those opportunities. I still believe that we can better ourselves and have a better life than what we started with.
Argumentative Essay What if the phrase “practice makes perfect” wasn’t actually true? Malcolm Gladwell claims that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to perfect a skill, however, some people are starting to believe that may not be the case. “Your Genes Don’t Fit. Why 10,000 Hours of Practice, Won’t Make You an Expert”, argues that mastering a skill requires innate abilities along with practice.
After two years in college and an assortment of music jobs at various orchestras, Miller moved to Los ANgeles where was was paired with Benny Goodman, another rising musician and they would then travel and work with several Ben Pollack Orchestra bands. Obviously, Miller’s career did not take off due to his occasion like the examples that Gladwell described in his book. However, that is because as the title suggests, Gladwell’s “outliers” are truely outliers. As Frederick DOuglass stated in his self-made man speech, “.... real Excellence often comes on Harold and from unexpected quarters,” and that is exactly how Miller was able to rise to fame and become a super achiever, even in his unfortunate
People today with platinum albums, gold medals, etc. are what most people think about when you mention success, but how did that happen exactly? Most people just say it was hard work but did those people think about the true possibilities about how they come to be the people they are now? Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote “Outliers” clarifies how it was possible for these people to be successful and what big factors took place during their lives to make them successful. Many theories have been set in the past about success stories and how they correspond to each other and how they differ by a great margin, and many psychologists and another scientist ,such as Malcolm Gladwell have come to find out how success occurred. Two of those success stories that “differ by a great margin”
The differentiated experience happen because the coaches and scouts are confused of the difference between real ability and the maturity. Finally, the small advantage from the birth dates becomes a huge advantage by continuity of initial advantage and strengthening of the advantage through differentiated experience. Therefore, opportunity of relative age serves as the main component to achieve success which challenges Gladwell’s argument about intrinsic
Gladwell’s Argument in Outliers Success is a concept that is constantly altered and has a different meaning from person to person. The stereotypical definition of success would be someone who has a high-paying job or is in the upper-class. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers: The Story of Success, approaches the concept of success in a different and unique way. Gladwell discusses how opportunities, cultural legacy, and hard work all coincide with each other to produce real success. He uses mostly logic and multiple unrelated anecdotes to support and provide evidence for his statements.
We hear success stories everyday on the news and on television yet, there is no one who explains how these individuals became prosperous. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell creates a blueprint for success through a series of short stories. Gladwell dissects the stories and looks at the individual’s background to connect every story with his theories as well as using statistics and facts to show credibility and logic. This method allows the readers to better comprehend his
There is one thing that every person wants to know throughout their life. Our destiny and whether we have the ability to make it successful or if natural abilities predetermine it for us. Many different authors and scientist have argued this question for years. Authors Malcolm Gladwell and David Epstein found one another on contrasting sides of the subject. Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Outliers", concluded that humans have more control over their success in life.
behavior, learning and memory of an individual ( 1). While Dr. Noble noted the more affluent children possessed larger hippocampuses than their disadvantaged counterparts (Brain Trust 47), Hanson notes that the lifestyle of less affluent families affect the hippocampus negatively. For instance, maternal separation can negatively impact the hippocampus, I.e. working mother's. The lower the income a household has, the more stress it faces. Outstanding stress can have long-lasting negative effects on the hippocampus (1.).
He was born into a middle-class family which allowed him to be able to have the ability to have access to music at an early age. His mother was a key figure in his life when it came to music. She encouraged him to seek out a musical instrument when he was young. He started playing the piano very early in life, around the age of six, and it soon became clear to his family that he had a natural talent for it. He went on to study the piano and take piano lessons, per his family’s suggestion, soon after his talent was discovered.
He didn’t only study tennis players, he also studied pianists and people who play chess. What he was trying to find out was what each person did while they were practicing and how long they had to practice each day to become as good as they were. “Talent hotbeds are to primal cues what Las Vegas is to neon signs, flashing with the kind of signals that keep motivation