Gladwell (2008) himself writes, “But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities” (p.55). My parents and sister were always there to encourage and teach me, they were my extraordinary opportunity. My mother was a stay at home mom for the first eight years of my life. Every day she was there to work with me and teach me new things. In those first five years of my life I was able to learn so much. When I went to elementary school, I was one of the brightest kids in all my classes. I knew things like my numbers, alphabet, how to read and write. These were things that many of the children in my class simply did not know how to do. My mother, being there for me every day, contributed to my success, giving me an advantage over the other children my age. I also have an older sister who liked to help me with my school work and teach me new things that she was learning in her classes. This helped me in knowing some of the material of the classes before even stepping foot in them. This put me even further ahead in school and greatly contributed to my academic success. Gladwell wrote the award-winning book Outliers, that focused on success and the ways people obtained success. In this book, Gladwell (2008) made a claim that, “their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up” (p. 67). This quote applies to me in that my success was not all my own making. My family pushed me and made me who I am by the opportunities they gave me. Given different circumstances, I could have been just like those other kids in my class that were slowly falling
Gladwell (2008) himself writes, “But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities” (p.55). My parents and sister were always there to encourage and teach me, they were my extraordinary opportunity. My mother was a stay at home mom for the first eight years of my life. Every day she was there to work with me and teach me new things. In those first five years of my life I was able to learn so much. When I went to elementary school, I was one of the brightest kids in all my classes. I knew things like my numbers, alphabet, how to read and write. These were things that many of the children in my class simply did not know how to do. My mother, being there for me every day, contributed to my success, giving me an advantage over the other children my age. I also have an older sister who liked to help me with my school work and teach me new things that she was learning in her classes. This helped me in knowing some of the material of the classes before even stepping foot in them. This put me even further ahead in school and greatly contributed to my academic success. Gladwell wrote the award-winning book Outliers, that focused on success and the ways people obtained success. In this book, Gladwell (2008) made a claim that, “their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up” (p. 67). This quote applies to me in that my success was not all my own making. My family pushed me and made me who I am by the opportunities they gave me. Given different circumstances, I could have been just like those other kids in my class that were slowly falling