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Assess The Significance Of The Title Outliers By Timothy Gladwell

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The Author and His Times - Malcom Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963 in Fareham, Hampshire. Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996 and has written four other books besides Outliers which all were put on The New York Times Best Seller list. Gladwell has stated before that his mother is his inspiration as a writer. Gladwell moved to Elmira, Ontario at the age of six from Southampton and would later go to Ontario High School in Kingston, Ontario for high school, and would graduate with a major in History from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, Toronto, in 1984. Gladwell identifies himself as a Christian, his family would attend Above Bar Church in Southampton, UK, and would later attend Gale Presbyterian …show more content…

“The Story of Success” is even the subtitle of the book, Gladwell’s main intention of this book was to see what factors contribute to the success of people and to the failure of the people who don’t get so lucky. Significance of the title - The title of Outliers is significant because it’s a term used by Gladwell. Gladwell describes Outliers as “people who do not fit into our normal understanding of achievement”. Gladwell tries to convey with this title that he’s looking into the people he considers as Outliers to see what, why, and how they succeeded hence “The Story of Success” as well. Prior to reading most readers won’t know what the name means, but after reading readers will have a full understanding of why Gladwell chose the title and what it means to the book itself. Memorable Quotes - Some memorable quotes from the book to me are as follows; “Personal explanations of success don’t work. People don’t rise from nothing.", “We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.”, “The sense of entitlement…is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world.”, and “Throughout history, not surprisingly, the people who grow rice have always worked harder than almost any other kind of farmer.”. Each of these quotes capture how society works, Some have to work harder than others to succeed and we as people care more about the people who have succeeded in life than the people who were not as

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