Gladwell shows that people with innate talent has does not have much to do with people who are successful. He brings up the 10,000 hour rule which shows that people with roughly around 10,000 hours of practice are the ones that are masters of a certain art. Piano players put into different groups had different amounts of practice, those who had around 10,000 were considered professionals and those with 4,000 became teachers and such.
He also makes the point that people's success is also based on luck and their childhood. If Steve Jobs was not lucky to get so many opportunities to code, he would not be who he is today. Gladwell claims that a person's family background also has impact on how they turn out. A person from a wealthy family is taught differently that a person from a poor family. The person from the wealthy family is taught in such a way that will make them be more likely to be successful.
Interesting remark with the fact that mastery comes with around 1,000 hours of practice. Does the book explain what happens if you were to all of a sudden stop practicing? Like would you loose all of your mastery?
ReplyDeleteThough it's sadly true, the upbringings of a person greatly affect their lives in the future but I feel like it sometimes depends on what drives that person to be successful. There are many instances where someone uses their situation as an inspiration to push themselves towards a more successful life.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a person's background and how they were brought up has its perks for someone's success. If someone was born into a wealthy family, they have more money to invest and use in order to achieve whatever success they wish. Sadly, in society today, money can pretty much give you anything. Money equals privilege.
ReplyDeleteTalent doesn't really allow a person success anymore. You would have to be really good at whatever you do in order to outshine many others and succeed. In today's age, talent can't always give a person success.
The way you grew up compeletly shapes the amount of success and education one recieves. You can see it everywhere, even in our immediate area. Kids who go to Los Altos have, in many cases, more economic and educational opportunties than those that go to Mayfair. Like Emily was communicating, this is all about money. Even the schools are sectioned off based on weath and prestige (ex. La Mirada High School is in a richer area therefore they get rich kids, have more money as a school, and have more opportunies for those kids because of it).
ReplyDeleteIt is very true that the way you were brought up in your household can affect how successful you could become. If a person's parents are successful their child would most likely also become successful. But also I feel if a kid is raised up poorly , then they have some type of drive and motivation to work harder than everyone else. It really just depends on the type of person they are. That is interesting about the 10,000 hours though. What would happen if you stop practicing? Does the mastery stay with you?
ReplyDeleteWhile a person who is brought up in a rich family maybe taught how to be better and more successful than one brought up in a poor family, success is not determined by intelligence or up bringing all the time. More often than not resilience and persistence is more meaningful especially in the realm of success. While person B may have been taught how to properly run a business, if person B puts in enough time and effort, his business could be just as successful if not more.
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DeleteWhile I would like to agree with your point, in our non-perfect world determination doesn't dictate success. There is luck that also plays a major key factor. Luck not in the sense of being raised into a wealthy family, but in the way of getting noticed and being accepted by the public. One could start another smartphone company and more likely than not, they will be smothered by the plethora of other companies. In order to be an "outlier" that company can't find success through resilience , they must play their dices right and have a little luck in order to be noticed. Even if they proceed to make new, beneficial alterations to a smartphone, they still have to hope that the stars align in their favor
DeleteI feel as though the distinction made in regards to how wealthy and poor are raised isn't entirely accurate. If we're talking about caring families here, both fundamentally push for this success mentality, and bearing in mind the assumption these are caring families, I don't necessarily see it being any other way for either of them.
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