Posted: June 25th, 2015

Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" Chapter Two

we plunge even further into Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers! Your assignment: read pages 35-68 and answer the following questions in depth. Feel free to engage with your fellow students over their responses and rack up those participation points. Below are your prompts for this week, but don’t consider yourself limited to them. You can tailor your own responses. Remember, responses are your opportunity to practice critical thinking and demonstrate your capacity to “engage” with the writer’s thought. Why do you or don’t you like the text? What are the points, or hidden assumptions the author is making worth challenging or refining? What in your own experience or research can you bring to the discussion to modify, deepen or dispute the author’s argument? What is the 10,000 hour rule, and why does Gladwell make so much out of it? What is your perspective on this seemingly iron-clad rule? Yet, according to Gladwell, it’s not just extraordinary talent and thousands of hours of practice that makes for great success such as achieved by Bill Gates or The Beatles — a window of extraordinary opportunity must be open as well. What is his reasoning? Explain it. Do you think he is correct? Suppose that the outlier level of success achieved by some individuals isn’t the purpose of existence — in that case, is knowing this information useful and applicable in our lives? How can you see it at work in your own experience, and among those around you? Again, feel free to improvise off these questions, expanding and developing your response to the text as comes naturally to you — just be sure your response is critical! Answers to a three questions! question 1- answer… question 2-answer, question 3-answer.

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