Outliers Blog 3

This is now my 3rd blog. In today's blog, I will discuss the three interesting quotes that I have chosen from my IRU book Outliers and respond to some level 3 questions asked by my peers.

Quote 1.
"It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't"(Gladwell 19).
I think this is one of the key quotes in the story. The attention getter. The book is about success and how we view it. This quote grabbed my attention thus I continued reading and later found out the environment in which success devolps. The way we view success maybe wrong afterall.

Quote 2.
"All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity"(Gladwell 53)
This quote sums it all up. Malcom Gladwell's goal is to prove to people that success isn't just hard work. Alot has to do with luck or an "unusual opportunity." In the first 4 chapters of the book, Gladwell did a great job of proving the unusual opportunities of successful figures. He was indirectly telling us that success comes from luck. This quote pretty much told us that the outliers(successful people) were luckier than the average man.

Quote 3."The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forbears shape the patterns of our acheivement in ways we cannot begin to imagine." (Gladwell 19).
This quote basically tells us that our acheivements in life can be something that our forbears already accomplished. Success doesn't just come from the work of one person.

Response to Ry's level 3 question.
How would you get over the grief of your kids being the killers or victims?
Answer- If my kids were the victims of the Coloumbine Shooting, I honestly wouldn't know how to deal with the grief. The grief would be unbearable knowing my kids were killed by someone who went to school with them. The only way to deal with this grief is just let time pass. There are some things in life we just can't get over and time is the only way out. Knowing that my kids were the not the only ones who died would help a little.