Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Stories Of Success

Success can have different meanings to different people, Malcolm Gladwell suggest that “success is a function of persistence and determination and the willingness to work hard to make sense of something others may give up on” (Malcolm Gladwell Outliers). He explores his idea of success in the book Outliers: The Stories of Success offering readers ways to achieve success. In fact, he credits opportunity, skills, social responsibilities, and creativity as contributions towards success. Gladwell uses the term “outliers” to represent two things which are:
1. “Situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body (Gladwell, p. 6)”
2. “A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample” (Gladwell,