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.