Analysis of the theory explicit by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says that a person must not only be smart to succeed, but it must also be lucky enough to have at its disposal a number of opportunities that allow him or her to develop his or hers skills and arise in the right time.
Furthermore, the author explains that innate talent is something real, something existing and not disputed, but you need to know to take it to cultivate its best. This is expressed when he says that after several studies found that many cases of outliers reflected in the book became the best in its class because it met the 10,000 hours of practice, equivalent to 10 years . Such is the case of Canadian hockey players born in the early months of the year who had the opportunity to practice more than other children born in recent months, because the period of election of the players began on 1 January. Thus, those born before, first reached the age required for the election that they were born later and so the former had the advantage of being able to practice more than others.


However, Gladwell argues that besides having sufficient intelligence and an innate talent, it also needs to be able to seize opportunities that arise (as mentioned above) to be constant and persevere and achieve well, be the best in the area where the performance takes place.
Another idea to review the author is the advantage that people with economic power to develop a more productive capacities, for having solved the basic needs, is not obliged to work more than necessary and may well use more time to practice and improve their skills, either to play an instrument, play
sports, etc..
However, this is not true in all cases, as there are people still without belonging to wealthy families, they managed to succeed. People who worked hard to achieve their goals and took every opportunity presented to them on the road.

BY MANUELA DOS SANTOS AND GABRIELA LOPEZ