Book Report of
The Outliers
By: Malcolm Gladwell
The Outliers starts in a small town of pensylvania known as rossetto. The town was named after a small Italian village. 1The people of Roseto have an extremely low rate of heart disease although there has been a huge heart disease epidemic in the 1950’s. “no one under 55 had died of a heart attack, or showed any signs of heart disease” Curious about this small town’s health, Stewart Wolfe, with the help of colleagues, collected death records and family genealogies to investigate the amazingly low heart rate of this town. Expecting to find a special diet or genes that caused the astonishing health benefit, Wolfe was surprised to see that the reason for the lowered risk of heart disease was the social structure of the town, and their origins of Roseto Valefotore,Italy. “The Rosetans were healthy because of where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills.” Many house-holds had three generations living in the same home. This town that overcame the ‘norms’ was an outlier. A great start to this life changing book
One of the numerous names mentioned in The Outliers, is Roger Barnsley. He was at a hockey game when he noticed that …show more content…
For example, in middle school, Bill Gates was allowed access to computers when around his childhood, computers were only owned by large schools and corporations. Another great example shown in the outliers is The Beatles; they were hired to play in Hamburg clubs giving them copious amounts of time to practice “they had performed live an estimated twelve hundred times” so they could go from a “struggling high school band” before they could even begin seeing their success which came in
The Outliers
By: Malcolm Gladwell
The Outliers starts in a small town of pensylvania known as rossetto. The town was named after a small Italian village. 1The people of Roseto have an extremely low rate of heart disease although there has been a huge heart disease epidemic in the 1950’s. “no one under 55 had died of a heart attack, or showed any signs of heart disease” Curious about this small town’s health, Stewart Wolfe, with the help of colleagues, collected death records and family genealogies to investigate the amazingly low heart rate of this town. Expecting to find a special diet or genes that caused the astonishing health benefit, Wolfe was surprised to see that the reason for the lowered risk of heart disease was the social structure of the town, and their origins of Roseto Valefotore,Italy. “The Rosetans were healthy because of where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills.” Many house-holds had three generations living in the same home. This town that overcame the ‘norms’ was an outlier. A great start to this life changing book
One of the numerous names mentioned in The Outliers, is Roger Barnsley. He was at a hockey game when he noticed that …show more content…
For example, in middle school, Bill Gates was allowed access to computers when around his childhood, computers were only owned by large schools and corporations. Another great example shown in the outliers is The Beatles; they were hired to play in Hamburg clubs giving them copious amounts of time to practice “they had performed live an estimated twelve hundred times” so they could go from a “struggling high school band” before they could even begin seeing their success which came in