HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE AN OUTLIER



Every day we hear about people who have attained professional success, but we never stop to think what they’re like and what are the characteristics that make them achieve their goals, this is what Malcolm Gladwell, British writer who graduated from the University of Toronto writes about in his book “Outliers”.

If you were born in a country when its economy and society was stable, and family values and concern for the well educated play an important part, is easy for you to materialize your ideas and socialize with professional people, this is the first step to be an outlier.

An outlier according to Malcolm Gladwell is "something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body”. The outliers are professional people who stand out in any area, but whose success is conditioned by the social, political and economic situation in which the individual is.

If you have the first conditions that depend on the state you are, in the country and the family you were born in, to achieve success you should begin the task of creating a good performance in the field in which you are emphasized. This performance is reflected in the performance of the 10,000 hours of practice, the time required to achieve perfection in any area.

Some of examples are, Steve Jobs, Joseph Pulitzer, Gustavo Dudamel, Joe Flom, which according to Gladwell’s investigations in his book "Outliers", have the characteristics listed above, regardless of being born into wealthy families and high social status.

That's why Malcolm Gladwell in his book invites all those who have the potential to be an outlier to use it, and also invites families to have good communication and motivation for education, because this influences the child's life.
It is important to remember that the opportunities presented to them are not all alike, so the environment in which we find ourselves is crucial to success and we must be able to seize these opportunities.


BY ESTEFANIA RODRIGUEZ AND MARIA RODRIGUEZ