Outliers Summary Week 3

As we go into the third week of our book club, we've read the various ideals to success such as social systems, heritage, and cultural which identities play a significant role in the individuals advantages and disadvantages towards success. In chapter five, Gladwell diverts the topic of Chris Langan to a man named Joe Flom, who has went against the odds before becoming a successful lawyer. Flom had a rough childhood, encouraging himself to challenge the odds into a difficult field. Even though he had the characteristics of ambition, talent, and intelligence to make him a scholar which was not enough. It wasn't that he didn't provide enough in character or effort but the tasks that came along the way. Obstacles have a huge role when individuals want to achieve a goal, they leave the person to struggle on more and make it harder than it should be for them. 

Overall, our third book club went sincerely well. We discussed the ideals to succeed what author provided. Hard work, dedication, and overcoming obstacles along the way aren't meant for the individual to slow down or give them reason to stop trying but to try harder and seek for the purpose behind it all. It can be scary and breath-taking, though, in the end we realize that the problem was nothing to what we have been waiting for in the future. It's the levels of difficulty that prepare us for the harder times, for our future goals, we are preparing everyday as we live on our lives.