PERIOD 3: COLLEGE LIT
2009 Interview with Charlie Rose
Students should finish viewing the following interview segments and respond in the Comments section with their reaction to Gladwell's concept of "the Outlier." DUE BY WED. 3/18/15
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Out of all the way’s that people taught me on being successful and where successes comes from, this is the most significant one yet. Malcom explained what is explanatory about the nature of success and the many factors that go into it. I totally agree on the “luck” factor he uses bill gates as an example and the computer that was available to him in 1968. That made perfect sense he was lucky enough to have the opportunity and he put in his “10,000” hours of work in order to master his passion that led him to be the world’s richest man. Another factor is culture agree with this factor, your upbringing develops your character and your mentality which decides the amount of consistent effort you are willing to put into something. Then he talked about the magical factor I’ve heard of this magical factor before and I agree with that it is something that can’t be explain, grasped , or even described either you have it or you don’t and I think that this separates successful people and super successful people. There are many factors that go into being successful, and out of all the Malcolm listed I believe effort is the most important one as long as you try and try you’ll make it one day.
ReplyDeleteOut of all the way’s that people taught me on being successful and where successes comes from, this is the most significant one yet. Malcom explained what is explanatory about the nature of success and the many factors that go into it. I totally agree on the “luck” factor he uses bill gates as an example and the computer that was available to him in 1968. That made perfect sense he was lucky enough to have the opportunity and he put in his “10,000” hours of work in order to master his passion that led him to be the world’s richest man. Another factor is culture agree with this factor, your upbringing develops your character and your mentality which decides the amount of consistent effort you are willing to put into something. Then he talked about the magical factor I’ve heard of this magical factor before and I agree with that it is something that can’t be explain, grasped , or even described either you have it or you don’t and I think that this separates successful people and super successful people. There are many factors that go into being successful, and out of all the Malcom listed I believe effort is the most important one as long as you try and try you’ll make it one day.
ReplyDeleteAs far as success goes and happens it is an extremely complicated topic. Everything from luck, tenacity, passion, opportunity, family history, and cultural quirks can impact how and why some people are more successful or simply more willing to work for their goals. I would argue that some of his points are a bit too generalized to hold true to every case of success, but in most cases a combination of some of the elements he talked about play at least a minor role.
ReplyDeleteThere may be more to uncover in fully understanding why some people succeed. Malcom has done an excellent job so far with starting to unravel the mysterious nature success has. Honestly I think a passion for achieving a goal and the tenacity to endure what you may encounter on the way are some of the more important elements for success.
The one thing we all crave in life is being successful in everything we do. You can tell Malcom Gladwell was definitely one of those people who wanted to be successful to the point where he really had to look into a deeper analysis of the meaning of success. In these videos he talks about being lucky, being in the right place at the right time; but what he said about Bill Gates was true, not only do you need luck but you need something that will continue to drive you and that's motivation. That's when he talks about his 10,000 hour rule for success saying in order to be successful you need to put in that amount of time to see greater results. Some skeptics would say this book is unreliable but it actually is because what he observes in life about society is exactly how he describes it in his book "Outliers".
ReplyDeletearticle 1: I watched the chant and I was shocked and disgusted. Kids who are suppose to represent "brotherhood" and be great influences were involved in this vicious act. Chanting those hurtful words were defiantly with malicious intent, and were meant to hurt feelings. Regardless if it was on a bus, in a house any where those words shouldn't have been said. I feel like kids being kicked out of the fraternity was the best thing to do. Of coarse they are going to blame other schools, or try to justify what was done. If it wasn't strictly local or not the kids shouldn't of done that, it's not a good look to anyone, administration, students board of education anything connected to the school. People can take that as the school knew an allowed it to go on, which in fact I wouldn't doubt, not for a second.
ReplyDeleteReading article 4 made me realize racism still exist today, not only in the south or places we know it still exist but in places you would least expect, this can happen to any average diverse person. I don't feel like frats are a form of racism because racism is a lifestyle you choose to live and it can also be brought on by what a persons family what you see around you. People become a product of their environment and act the way they see others act. If someone around them is setting a trend people will start to follow, that's in the everyday world. You can say people use frats as a way to separate themselves but that is by choice.
My brother was in a fraternity and he always says it is a great experience. He never complained about racism and any other issues you might think come with fraternities. So I disagree with the author I don't feel like frats are a way to separate from others. Fraternities are suppose to dignify brotherhood and yes some people to go into different groups I don't feel like frats should be banned I feel like the people who give the fraternities a bad name shouldn't ruin that from everyone else.