Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point'

In Outliers: the story of success, Malcolm Gladwell tries to prove why successful people are successful. Particularly in chapter eight; Gladwell claims that rice farmers are hard workers, that hard workers are not successful, and that Asians are better than Westerners in math. Gladwell uses many techniques to persuade the audience to his point of view, which he does beautifully. Gladwell uses these different techniques to prove his claims in a variety of ways. All of his techniques can be categorized as Ethos, Pathos or Logos.

1. Do you agree or disagree with Gladwell’s ideas/theories on how to be successful? 2. Is success purely luck, or takes hard work and dedication? 3.

"There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis" Some of life 's most critical decisions happen in a split second. In the novel Blink, Malcolm Gladwell teaches about the power of split second thinking and deepens our understanding of the ability of our own minds. Connecting to the experiences of others mentioned in Blink teaches you things about yourself that you have never known or merely thought about before. It allows you to reflect on past experiences and decisions that you have made and wonder how you came to the conclusions that you did. "Did they know why they knew?

Malcolm Gladwell uses famous photograph in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement that was taken on May 3, 1963, by Bill Hudson to demonstrate that even though underdogs are outnumbered along the journey they learn a few things about fighting giants. In 1963 Martin Luther King came to Birmingham, Alabama to take fight against city’s racist police commissioner Eugene ”Bull” Connor. The picture taken in 1963 was of a young teenager being attacked by a police dog. The well dressed boy seeming to be leaning into the dog, his arms limp to his side, calmly staring straight ahead as though he is saying,” Take me, here I am, expresses Gladwell.” Even to this day this photo has not lost it’s power to shock.

The book Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell, never defines the word "success," a concept explored in its entirety throughout the book. Rather, the term Outlier is defined as “something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body,” and “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample,” which relates to the popular view of success. Conversely, Gladwell’s theory of success is that the outliers could not have achieved success without both the opportunity to achieve success, and the hard work to make use of the opportunity. Following this principle, I have related my own successes to this theory. The first opportunity for success came from my parents wealth

Some people say that that people have to be born with natural talents or abilities to succeed, while others think that we have the ability to make ourselves successful with hard work. Who is right? The two authors, David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell, take two different ideas on this subject.. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers: The Story of Success explains how he thinks that preparation and hard work is more important than talent. The author of The Sports Gene, David Epstein, he thinks that natural ability is an advantage over practice.

The article "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell explained how a marriage counselor uses thin slice in determining whether a marriage is incapable and capable long lasting marriage. For example, the article stated a client 's case, which marriage counselor John Gottman overseen. The case study is about a husband and wife who are arguing in a humorous manner over the wife 's smelling dog (Gladwell, 2015). From John Gottman standpoint the humorous argument bickering from each mate are showing defensiveness, whining and sadness within the marriage (Gladwell, 2015). Continuing in the case, John Gottman uses thin slicing as he interacts with his clients.

This quotes comes from the end of chapter.   For this chapter, Gladwell examines the life of one specific student at KIPP, named Marita. She is a middle schooler who wakes up at 5:30 AM and doesn’t get home from school until 5pm. She then starts her homework, and rarely takes a break, often eating her dinner as she works instead of sitting down at the table with her family.

Writers do their job because they want to express their ideas to make an impact on the readers. Sometimes they want to convince their audience through persuasion. They can do it using different rhetorical elements such as logos, ethos, and pathos. These are Greek words that mean logic, character, and emotion consecutively.

Rhetorical questions In his expository text, “Blink”, Malcom Gladwell uses rhetorical questions to get the reader interested in the content of the book. This trend begins in the introduction where Gladwell introduces the idea that the subconscious mind has extraordinary abilities that people do not know about. After the Getty museum was asked to buy a Greek Kouro statue that was in almost perfect condition. The Getty performed an investigation to determine whether the Kouro was a forgery or not.