Kelvin Paez
This book can be a mixture of encouraging and discouraging. One may feel down because they are not born within these early months, in which gives an advantage in being successful in life, based upon Gladwell. However, I am born in April and I do fairly well in my class as far as ranking goes, but this this not prove if I am going to be successful. Besides this, this is encouraging because it tries to inform people on how become successful such as spending the hours at your craft to become an expert and taking those risky opportunities to get your career started.
I would definitely recommend this book to a friend because it makes you think differently. Most of us are always told by our parents to always work hard and strive for good grades however, Gladwell states that it is not only hard work that will get you far, but a combination of that and taking these opportunities will get one far in life. These theories that the author makes may help one of my friends to become successful. This book really made me think about what am I currently doing right now, if it is the right thing to do for my road to success, and having read this book it really informed me on how to stay on this road.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Chapter 9 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
In the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about how these middle school students from KIPP use a protocol called SSLANT. This is an acronym for for: smile, sit up, listen, ask questions, nod when being spoken to and track with your eyes. This is supposed to be used within the class in order to optimize learning, by being focused and look enthusiastic about education.
Furthermore, implementing these protocol will be very strange to me. However there will be many benefits, me sitting up will reduce the chances of me form slouching and sleeping. Smiling will make me enthusiastic about learning and the rest will just help me pay attention in class and remember everything that is being taught. I do some of these elements of the protocol already, that being asking questions and listening. However, for the ones such as smiling and nodding, that will feel quite strange to me and most likely uncomfortable to me. The same goes for my friends since, I do not normally do those things they will most likely presume that something strange is going on with me. Besides this, I believe doing this protocol would be completely beneficial in the class because I will be completely focused.
In the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about how these middle school students from KIPP use a protocol called SSLANT. This is an acronym for for: smile, sit up, listen, ask questions, nod when being spoken to and track with your eyes. This is supposed to be used within the class in order to optimize learning, by being focused and look enthusiastic about education.
Furthermore, implementing these protocol will be very strange to me. However there will be many benefits, me sitting up will reduce the chances of me form slouching and sleeping. Smiling will make me enthusiastic about learning and the rest will just help me pay attention in class and remember everything that is being taught. I do some of these elements of the protocol already, that being asking questions and listening. However, for the ones such as smiling and nodding, that will feel quite strange to me and most likely uncomfortable to me. The same goes for my friends since, I do not normally do those things they will most likely presume that something strange is going on with me. Besides this, I believe doing this protocol would be completely beneficial in the class because I will be completely focused.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Chapter 8 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Specifically for the country of China, many people live off of these rice patties. These patties are no ordinary plants that are easy to maintain in order to take care of them, one needs to have perseverance, tons of patience, and must be willing to spend tons of hours every day. As a result, many of the Chinese acquired these traits and were able to apply it to education specially, in math. The growing of these rice patties allowed them to excel in math in which, these problems would take time and effort to do. There were taught form goring these patties that with hard work, there would be a large reward that being more rice from each harvest.
Furthermore, I believe Americans do have hard work and perseverance but not as close to the Asians. If it is something you love doing or really want to accomplish, one would go above and beyond to keep on doing that or to accomplish that one thing. However, since these traits are not inherited at a very early age such as with the Asians, they may not apply it to everything that they possibly do not enjoy, that being school. As a result, not as many American students will put that hard work and perseverance because they are not thought through culture, that hard work does pay off with reward.
Specifically for the country of China, many people live off of these rice patties. These patties are no ordinary plants that are easy to maintain in order to take care of them, one needs to have perseverance, tons of patience, and must be willing to spend tons of hours every day. As a result, many of the Chinese acquired these traits and were able to apply it to education specially, in math. The growing of these rice patties allowed them to excel in math in which, these problems would take time and effort to do. There were taught form goring these patties that with hard work, there would be a large reward that being more rice from each harvest.
Furthermore, I believe Americans do have hard work and perseverance but not as close to the Asians. If it is something you love doing or really want to accomplish, one would go above and beyond to keep on doing that or to accomplish that one thing. However, since these traits are not inherited at a very early age such as with the Asians, they may not apply it to everything that they possibly do not enjoy, that being school. As a result, not as many American students will put that hard work and perseverance because they are not thought through culture, that hard work does pay off with reward.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Chapter 7 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell he talks about how in Korea at a point of time, had a bad reputation of plane crashes. Due to their high-power distance culture in which people who had less power on the plane would not be affirmative and demanding on desire situations. Resulting, into miscommunication with the pilot and to a demise of many lives lost due to a plane crash. At times like these, we question these high-power distance cultures and when it should and should not be used.
Primarily, it should be acceptable to question authority when one believes that he/she is wrong especially, in dire situations. When one is putting lives on the line such a pilot in a plane crashing scenario, it is a necessity to correct the pilot if he is doing something false on his part. This would be the time in which one has to eliminate this high-power distance culture into a low-power one, and treat them just as you would treat anyone else. This has to be done if, people are in an extreme situation.
Furthermore, not defying authority should be acceptable in situations such as a lecture. The person who is giving a lecture most likely has more knowledge about this topic more than anyone else in the class. Trying to defy him or question is knowledge would not be appropriate. However, this is only in most cases because there can be situations in which teachers can be completely wrong.
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell he talks about how in Korea at a point of time, had a bad reputation of plane crashes. Due to their high-power distance culture in which people who had less power on the plane would not be affirmative and demanding on desire situations. Resulting, into miscommunication with the pilot and to a demise of many lives lost due to a plane crash. At times like these, we question these high-power distance cultures and when it should and should not be used.
Primarily, it should be acceptable to question authority when one believes that he/she is wrong especially, in dire situations. When one is putting lives on the line such a pilot in a plane crashing scenario, it is a necessity to correct the pilot if he is doing something false on his part. This would be the time in which one has to eliminate this high-power distance culture into a low-power one, and treat them just as you would treat anyone else. This has to be done if, people are in an extreme situation.
Furthermore, not defying authority should be acceptable in situations such as a lecture. The person who is giving a lecture most likely has more knowledge about this topic more than anyone else in the class. Trying to defy him or question is knowledge would not be appropriate. However, this is only in most cases because there can be situations in which teachers can be completely wrong.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Chapter 6 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Based upon the book by Malcolm Gladwell "Outliers: The Story of Success", the author talks about how culture of honor affects peoples' chances to become successful or not. This is evident in the South in which, countries like Kentucky has many murders due to family feuds. These feuds can trace all the way back ancestors, in which there has been many cases in which livestock has been stolen from each other. As a result, these cattle caretakers put everything they have, to protect this livestock so, they keep their reputation strong so they animals won't be taken away. Gladwell also states, that these characteristics of protecting honor is passed down the family. I believe that these past feuds ultimately, affect the current generations.
Furthermore, these ideas of protecting honor is taught the new, incoming generation. Parents usually, past down what was taught to them, if it worked. Reputation and honor can be one of these ideas that was passed down. If it worked for the older generation, there is no reason why they would not pass it down. To add to, if parents are displaying these characteristics in front of their children, it may be possible that the new generation may use this as well.
Based upon the book by Malcolm Gladwell "Outliers: The Story of Success", the author talks about how culture of honor affects peoples' chances to become successful or not. This is evident in the South in which, countries like Kentucky has many murders due to family feuds. These feuds can trace all the way back ancestors, in which there has been many cases in which livestock has been stolen from each other. As a result, these cattle caretakers put everything they have, to protect this livestock so, they keep their reputation strong so they animals won't be taken away. Gladwell also states, that these characteristics of protecting honor is passed down the family. I believe that these past feuds ultimately, affect the current generations.
Furthermore, these ideas of protecting honor is taught the new, incoming generation. Parents usually, past down what was taught to them, if it worked. Reputation and honor can be one of these ideas that was passed down. If it worked for the older generation, there is no reason why they would not pass it down. To add to, if parents are displaying these characteristics in front of their children, it may be possible that the new generation may use this as well.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Chapter 5 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
1 February 16
In Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success", Gladwell talks about how people were able to become extremely successful due to their demographic luck. Demographic luck is an advantage for a person that they received because of pure luck, no effort is needed. This luck usually gives one, an extra push and that one person will benefit greatly. However, one still needs to be great at their field to take advantage of this.
Primarily, demographic luck can greatly impact a person's chance of success, such as reducing competition. In Gladwell's book, he talks about that a person named Joe Flom, his success was contributed by the fact of little competition. During the hardships of the Great Depression, people stopped having children, this disadvantage of the USA, became an advantage to Flom. In law school, Flom was put in smaller classes so his competition was completely reduced so the chances of him standing out would be much greater.
Furthermore, demographic luck can turn one's job to low-paying to high-paying. Using the same person Joe Flom, he was a great lawyer, one of the best in Harvard Law in fact, however, he was only able to work on cases such as the cooperate takeovers in which, were underrated at the time. Flom was able to get the hours of practice he needed and then all of a sudden, cooperate takeovers became more commonplace in the 1950s and 60s. As a result, Flom became extremely successful due to the hours of practice and expertise of corporate takeovers.
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
1 February 16
In Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success", Gladwell talks about how people were able to become extremely successful due to their demographic luck. Demographic luck is an advantage for a person that they received because of pure luck, no effort is needed. This luck usually gives one, an extra push and that one person will benefit greatly. However, one still needs to be great at their field to take advantage of this.
Primarily, demographic luck can greatly impact a person's chance of success, such as reducing competition. In Gladwell's book, he talks about that a person named Joe Flom, his success was contributed by the fact of little competition. During the hardships of the Great Depression, people stopped having children, this disadvantage of the USA, became an advantage to Flom. In law school, Flom was put in smaller classes so his competition was completely reduced so the chances of him standing out would be much greater.
Furthermore, demographic luck can turn one's job to low-paying to high-paying. Using the same person Joe Flom, he was a great lawyer, one of the best in Harvard Law in fact, however, he was only able to work on cases such as the cooperate takeovers in which, were underrated at the time. Flom was able to get the hours of practice he needed and then all of a sudden, cooperate takeovers became more commonplace in the 1950s and 60s. As a result, Flom became extremely successful due to the hours of practice and expertise of corporate takeovers.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Chapter 4 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Ms.Benjamin
3-4 A
28 February 16
I am a firm believer that economic status or class contributes to an individual's success greatly. I believe so because, it can give a clear advantage to that person compared to the not as fortunate. For example, in the business world, if a person already comes from a wealthy background they have something to fall back on, however for the ones at the lower classes do not have that privilege. To add to, the richer do not need to rely on loans while the poorer usually, rely heavily on banks as for their kick-starter. For the unprivileged, they business is going to start really slow with such debt on their backs while, it may be the opposite for the ones who did not rely on the loans as much.
Moreover, being born in the higher working class one is taught many skills that one in the lower classes are not taught. In he book, Gladwell talks about these two people Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer. Langan grew up very poor while, Oppenheimer was much more fortunate. Langan had a tough childhood and learned to cope with the hardships that come that enter throughout one's life. However Oppenheimer, had "pratical knowledge" in which is a kind of skill that allows a person to talk their way out of trouble, this was a valuable skill that he had. Oppenheimer was so good with this, he was ble to get away form poisoning his own teacher. As a result, this man was able to use his social skills and speak up to stand out in society and eventually become successful while, Langan could have achieved much more.
Furthermore, this idea can also apply to athletics, somewhat. For example, for track, better teams and runners seems to be evident with schools that have more funding. These teams obviously, have better and more equipment, an actual track to practice in, and more importantly, better and several coaches. While other schools like mine's or SPHS, have to run in our school hallways for practice, only have one coach, little and poor equipment, and not enough funding to go to all of our meets. Therefore, the ones with more funded teams can will have a much higher chance of having faster runners because of thee school's economic situation. However, smaller budget schools could still have good runners but only to an extent.
Ms.Benjamin
3-4 A
28 February 16
I am a firm believer that economic status or class contributes to an individual's success greatly. I believe so because, it can give a clear advantage to that person compared to the not as fortunate. For example, in the business world, if a person already comes from a wealthy background they have something to fall back on, however for the ones at the lower classes do not have that privilege. To add to, the richer do not need to rely on loans while the poorer usually, rely heavily on banks as for their kick-starter. For the unprivileged, they business is going to start really slow with such debt on their backs while, it may be the opposite for the ones who did not rely on the loans as much.
Moreover, being born in the higher working class one is taught many skills that one in the lower classes are not taught. In he book, Gladwell talks about these two people Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer. Langan grew up very poor while, Oppenheimer was much more fortunate. Langan had a tough childhood and learned to cope with the hardships that come that enter throughout one's life. However Oppenheimer, had "pratical knowledge" in which is a kind of skill that allows a person to talk their way out of trouble, this was a valuable skill that he had. Oppenheimer was so good with this, he was ble to get away form poisoning his own teacher. As a result, this man was able to use his social skills and speak up to stand out in society and eventually become successful while, Langan could have achieved much more.
Furthermore, this idea can also apply to athletics, somewhat. For example, for track, better teams and runners seems to be evident with schools that have more funding. These teams obviously, have better and more equipment, an actual track to practice in, and more importantly, better and several coaches. While other schools like mine's or SPHS, have to run in our school hallways for practice, only have one coach, little and poor equipment, and not enough funding to go to all of our meets. Therefore, the ones with more funded teams can will have a much higher chance of having faster runners because of thee school's economic situation. However, smaller budget schools could still have good runners but only to an extent.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Chapter 3 Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
24 February 2016
My definition of success would be, to become completely rich, be happy, give money to charity, and to take advantage of opportunities. I believe so, because being rich would mean that one has made in life with his/her career. However, money cannot buy happiness, so being happy is a necessity for being successful. In addition , I believe giving money to charity is another factor of being successful because you are not greedy with your money, and you would donate some or even most of it for good causes. Based upon my idea of success the person I believe that most fits my definition, would be Bill Gates.
Primarily, William Henry Gates III or better known as Bill Gates was born on October 28th 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates dropped out of Harvard University to pursue his dreams as a programmer and started his own company called Microsoft.
Moreover, Gates is my role model because he is simply, filthy rich. With a net worth of 29.2 billion USD he is on the charts for the richest people in the world. This man has took a risk, and left a prestigious college to pursue his dreams, of being a computer software programmer. The risk he took, resulting into his benefit of becoming a billionaire and that is one reason why he is my role model. During the time Gates began pursuing his dreams, computer software was this new concept thus, there was very little competition. As a result, Microsoft was able to become a boom in business due to the fact, that there were very little computer software programs out there, in the first place. If Gates was pursuing his dreams at another time such as now, he would not be nearly as successful as he is now, at such a fast rate.
Furthermore, Bill Gates is a person I look up to because he donated so much to charity. He promised by the time he died he would donate 95% of his personal fortune, so far he has donated 28 billion dollars to charities. These donations usually end up to help out countries that cannot afford vaccinations also, innovations in which can prevent diseases in these countries. Gates could have simply kept all the money to himself and passed it through his family generations but, he decided to share it with the world to help us out.
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
24 February 2016
My definition of success would be, to become completely rich, be happy, give money to charity, and to take advantage of opportunities. I believe so, because being rich would mean that one has made in life with his/her career. However, money cannot buy happiness, so being happy is a necessity for being successful. In addition , I believe giving money to charity is another factor of being successful because you are not greedy with your money, and you would donate some or even most of it for good causes. Based upon my idea of success the person I believe that most fits my definition, would be Bill Gates.
Primarily, William Henry Gates III or better known as Bill Gates was born on October 28th 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates dropped out of Harvard University to pursue his dreams as a programmer and started his own company called Microsoft.
Moreover, Gates is my role model because he is simply, filthy rich. With a net worth of 29.2 billion USD he is on the charts for the richest people in the world. This man has took a risk, and left a prestigious college to pursue his dreams, of being a computer software programmer. The risk he took, resulting into his benefit of becoming a billionaire and that is one reason why he is my role model. During the time Gates began pursuing his dreams, computer software was this new concept thus, there was very little competition. As a result, Microsoft was able to become a boom in business due to the fact, that there were very little computer software programs out there, in the first place. If Gates was pursuing his dreams at another time such as now, he would not be nearly as successful as he is now, at such a fast rate.
Furthermore, Bill Gates is a person I look up to because he donated so much to charity. He promised by the time he died he would donate 95% of his personal fortune, so far he has donated 28 billion dollars to charities. These donations usually end up to help out countries that cannot afford vaccinations also, innovations in which can prevent diseases in these countries. Gates could have simply kept all the money to himself and passed it through his family generations but, he decided to share it with the world to help us out.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Chapter 2 Outliers Reflection
Kelvin Paez
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
21 February 16
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell he talks about this 10,000 hour rule. This rule states that 10,000 hours is the magic number of hours you have to practice to become a expert at it. He proves this, by providing examples of famous people like Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft, who practiced coding for many hours each day and day to become an expert at it. Anyone having this knowledge of the 10,000 hour rule does not guarantee their success, but it can help it.
Primarily, this rule does not guarantee success because what would happen if the talent is not there. Someone could be spending countless hours on a craft but, if the talent is not there, there is a slim chance of one getting somewhere in life. To add to, another factor in this would be a person doing the practicing wrong. For example, if a person wants to become a musician for the trombone and practices based upon this rule but, practices wrong. The person may be playing all the notes slurred or his slide positions could be a little off as a result, the chances of success become very slim. Once it comes down for showtime, the person will play everything just like how he practiced and everything will be incorrect. This will lead to devastation of that person not getting that dream job.
Nevertheless, there are reasons why this rule can go into much benefit. People having such practice on their crafts can reduce the competition by a lot. One having such experience in one thing, will eliminate all the other competitors who did not put as much effort as you. As a result, the people who put the countless hours in will be rewarded significantly.
All in all, I generally do not agree completely with this rule being that one may practice wrong or just do not have the talent. However, I can see why this can come into great help, competition wise.
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
21 February 16
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell he talks about this 10,000 hour rule. This rule states that 10,000 hours is the magic number of hours you have to practice to become a expert at it. He proves this, by providing examples of famous people like Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft, who practiced coding for many hours each day and day to become an expert at it. Anyone having this knowledge of the 10,000 hour rule does not guarantee their success, but it can help it.
Primarily, this rule does not guarantee success because what would happen if the talent is not there. Someone could be spending countless hours on a craft but, if the talent is not there, there is a slim chance of one getting somewhere in life. To add to, another factor in this would be a person doing the practicing wrong. For example, if a person wants to become a musician for the trombone and practices based upon this rule but, practices wrong. The person may be playing all the notes slurred or his slide positions could be a little off as a result, the chances of success become very slim. Once it comes down for showtime, the person will play everything just like how he practiced and everything will be incorrect. This will lead to devastation of that person not getting that dream job.
Nevertheless, there are reasons why this rule can go into much benefit. People having such practice on their crafts can reduce the competition by a lot. One having such experience in one thing, will eliminate all the other competitors who did not put as much effort as you. As a result, the people who put the countless hours in will be rewarded significantly.
All in all, I generally do not agree completely with this rule being that one may practice wrong or just do not have the talent. However, I can see why this can come into great help, competition wise.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
The Matthew Effect Chapter 1
Kelvin Paez
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
2/18/16
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcom Gladwell, the Matthew effect is that there are loops in society in which the people that have an advantage will be able to use that advantage to gain even more of an edge to the others. Gladwell focuses on people who have been born on the earlier months specifically, January through March in which, will determine if a young hockey player in Canada can become an elite athlete due to their stronger physique during the same age. As a result, the player uses his physique to stand out to the other players allowing him, to get scouted to a a better team and eventually become an elite athlete. The Matthew effect is not based upon your raw talent but, the month you are born in will determine if you become successful or not. I believe the Mathew effect applies to me somewhat.
Primarily, the Matthew effect says that successful people are born within these range of months. Even though, my birthday is not in this range since it is at April 19, I believe I will become quite successful in the future of my life. This does not pertain to the fact of my birth month so, that part of the Mathew affect does not apply to me.
Furthermore, the Matthew effect states that people who are born within these range of months happen to score generally better on standardized tests compared to the ones born on later months. The only actual standardized tests I actually took would be the NJ ASK from middle school, and my scores were good and better than most of my fellow students in my class. Meaning, I would pertain to this aspect of these theory.
Ultimately, the Matthew effect is somewhat in my favor. Out of the 2 parts of this theory I stated, only one of them applied to me.
1. Explain the meaning of the passage from Matthew 25:29.
The passage from Matthew 25:29 means those who were given advantage, will be able to use that advantage even more so they can get more and vice versa, for the ones who do nothing will get nothing in return or perhaps things even taken away from them.
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
2/18/16
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcom Gladwell, the Matthew effect is that there are loops in society in which the people that have an advantage will be able to use that advantage to gain even more of an edge to the others. Gladwell focuses on people who have been born on the earlier months specifically, January through March in which, will determine if a young hockey player in Canada can become an elite athlete due to their stronger physique during the same age. As a result, the player uses his physique to stand out to the other players allowing him, to get scouted to a a better team and eventually become an elite athlete. The Matthew effect is not based upon your raw talent but, the month you are born in will determine if you become successful or not. I believe the Mathew effect applies to me somewhat.
Primarily, the Matthew effect says that successful people are born within these range of months. Even though, my birthday is not in this range since it is at April 19, I believe I will become quite successful in the future of my life. This does not pertain to the fact of my birth month so, that part of the Mathew affect does not apply to me.
Furthermore, the Matthew effect states that people who are born within these range of months happen to score generally better on standardized tests compared to the ones born on later months. The only actual standardized tests I actually took would be the NJ ASK from middle school, and my scores were good and better than most of my fellow students in my class. Meaning, I would pertain to this aspect of these theory.
Ultimately, the Matthew effect is somewhat in my favor. Out of the 2 parts of this theory I stated, only one of them applied to me.
1. Explain the meaning of the passage from Matthew 25:29.
The passage from Matthew 25:29 means those who were given advantage, will be able to use that advantage even more so they can get more and vice versa, for the ones who do nothing will get nothing in return or perhaps things even taken away from them.
2. How is Canadian hockey a meritocracy? In what ways does Gladwell show his skepticism regarding the idea? Canadian hockey is a meritocracy because players are selected on the their ability rather than who they are or where they come from. Gladwell counters this by saying that elite are selected on their origin or their birth month that being between the months of January-March. They will be ones who will have a higher chance to be successful due to their bigger physique allowing them to get more attention thus, being able to play for different teams and have more playing time.
3. Which stories sound the most interesting to you (Gladwell outlines many of his chapters on the bottom of page 17 and the top of page 18)? The story that sounds most interesting to m e from these pages would be why Asians are so good math. This is because I have always questioned why Asians have been known to be good at math and I wonder if it just comes natural to them or not.
4. What does Gladwell say is the stereotypical story of the rise to the top? What examples does he cite? Gladwell says that the story is that successful people are so because they were born in modest circumstances by virtue of his own grit and through talent, they get to the top. One example includes, is from the bible in which Joseph was sold into slaver. Joseph eventually become the Pharaoh's right-hand man because of his brilliance and insight.
5. What is Gladwell’s counterpoint to the stereotypical explanation and origins of success? Gladwell's counterpoint to the stereotypical explanation would be that success does not come from hard work. In fact, he believe people do not form anything he says we owe something to parentage and patronage. People make it in life due to the opportunities presented to them.
6. How does his analogy of “the tallest oak” apply? His analogy of "the tallest oak" applies because the reason why it was able to prosper because it was not blocked by sunlight, not damaged by squirrels, and not cut down by a lumberjack. Gladwell is trying to say that the tallest tree was able to prosper because of a reason such as how successful people are so.
7. According to Gladwell, how is a 13 or 14 year old Canadian really better? According to Gladwell, a 13 or 14 year old Canadian is better because of the month of the month they were born , not their ability to do something well. This is so because of the cut off dates for age-class hockey in Jan. 1st, so someone born around that age would be more mature then one who is born in the later months such as, November.
8. Read the footnote at the bottom of page 25. Define, in your own words, the term “self- fulfilling prophecy.” A self-fulfilling prophecy is a false assumption or prediction that causes itself to become true as a result of the way it is treated over time.
9. How does Gladwell apply his theory to education? Gladwell theory does applies to education he says that people who have been born in the early months perform better compared to the students who were born in the later months based upon standardized tests scores.
10. What solutions does Gladwell propose (33)? Why does he say we don’t pursue these? Solutions that Gladwell propose that we should acknowledge the cut off dates. In addition, creating hockey leagues divided by the months of birth. Schools classes should be divided by their birth month range in which would, allow students to compete against other students share the same maturity level.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
RCQ
Kelvin Paez
Ms.Benjamin
3-4 A
11 February 2016
There has been many success stories based upon people who have came from rough time an example being, Stephen King a writer at one point who was very poor and through hard work and determination, he became successful.This relates to the quote from "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, "We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit" (Gladwell 67). The story of the famous writer King, was just one side of the quote that success can be achieved through complete hard work and eventually, he will be rewarded by society however, that is not always the case. There are many factors that play in the fact of a person becoming successful or not, and most of them, cannot be controlled. One major factor would be networking, which is interacting with other people to create more contacts. This helps one out a ton if they are searching for a career, because the more people one knows, it can help them out to get that career they want because of favoritism. In addition, there are people who see such an extraordinary, once in a life time opportunity to get a career and they take it for themselves and become successful. Ultimately, I agree with his quote because people make it in life through hard work and sheer determination like Stephen King while others make it, through the many factors that people cannot control.
Ms.Benjamin
3-4 A
11 February 2016
There has been many success stories based upon people who have came from rough time an example being, Stephen King a writer at one point who was very poor and through hard work and determination, he became successful.This relates to the quote from "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell, "We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit" (Gladwell 67). The story of the famous writer King, was just one side of the quote that success can be achieved through complete hard work and eventually, he will be rewarded by society however, that is not always the case. There are many factors that play in the fact of a person becoming successful or not, and most of them, cannot be controlled. One major factor would be networking, which is interacting with other people to create more contacts. This helps one out a ton if they are searching for a career, because the more people one knows, it can help them out to get that career they want because of favoritism. In addition, there are people who see such an extraordinary, once in a life time opportunity to get a career and they take it for themselves and become successful. Ultimately, I agree with his quote because people make it in life through hard work and sheer determination like Stephen King while others make it, through the many factors that people cannot control.
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