I believe that some people have advantages in sports do too how they were born.  Genetically some people are born taller than others.  This gives them an advantage in basketball, because they can get to the rebound or shoot over people much easier.

Gladwell’s opinion was that people who are born earlier like in January tend to be more talented or stronger in what they do.  He used the example of hockey and how if they are bigger built and stronger they will be a much better player, will get to play with higher leagues so he will get better with the competition, and he will be more mature so he will be more committed and want to practice more.

I agree with him because people who are born earlier are old for their age, so sometimes they will be stronger than the average age group he is in.  This will be an advantage for them because it would be easier for them to get around the guy and you could shoot much harder.  The chapter for sure made me rethink what I said, because it is so true that if you are stronger and more mature you will do much better in the sport you play.

He used a hockey roster with their date of birth so you could see that most of the hockey players were born in that time period.  They were very convincing because I saw that most of the hockey players were born in the month on January and that proves the point that they are good at what they do because they are older than their age group.

                                                                                Justin West   

 

                 

Blog Post 2: Synthesis

Synthesis

I play volleyball outside of school. People do have advantages when it comes to activities, because some could be really good and some could be really bad. But when it comes to playing the game they get become really competitive because they want to win. Students can act differently to achieve their goals.

Gladwell’s opinion to the daily question is, he thinks that the teenagers who are older, do better in school/sports. I don’t agree with him because many teenagers who are younger also do well in school/sports. It doesn’t matter how old you are everyone has the same advantage. His chapter did not make me re-think my response to the daily question because it doesn't make any sense to me to why he thinks that way. Everyone has an equal chance of doing their best.

Blog post 2: Synthesis

I do think that when you are fast or very coordinated it does help you excel in sports differently rather than if you were not so coordinated and slow.  For example me, I am not very big but I am very fast and I am well coordinated and it helps me a lot in basketball because I can beat everyone to the hoop in a fastbreak and then score. Also being coordinated helps because I can dribble the ball and no one can steal it from me. After reading a part in the book "Outliers" I know I must be right because Gladwell's opinion is the same is mine. It did not make me have to rethink the daily question ,I still believe certain people have advantages when it comes to doing well with competitive and other goal orientated activities. Some of the sources he used to make his points are just certain birthdates kids had and most of the kids that were good were born in the month January February or March which meant they were bigger and more prepared. Yes those sources were kind of convincing but it just goes back to what I said.

Blog post 2: Synthesis

I do think that when you are fast or very coordinated it does help you excel in sports differently rather than if you were not so coordinated and slow.  For example me, I am not very big but I am very fast and I am well coordinated and it helps me a lot in basketball because I can beat everyone to the hoop in a fastbreak and then score. Also being coordinated helps because I can dribble the ball and no one can steal it from me. After reading a part in the book "Outliers" I know I must be right because Gladwell's opinion is the same is mine. It did not make me have to rethink the daily question ,I still believe certain people have advantages when it comes to doing well with competitive and other goal orientated activities. Some of the sources he used to make his points are just certain birthdates kids had and most of the kids that were good were born in the month January February or March which meant they were bigger and more prepared. Yes those sources were kind of convincing but it just goes back to what I said.

Blog post 2: synthesis

I do believe that so people have advantages but some are used to make people better at things. Like the time when I won a blue ribbon on my swim team. I had worked so hard to achieve it and I had trained for weeks before to make sure I achieved my goal. There are a couple of reasons why I was able to accomplish my goal, one is that I was faster than most of the other girls and two it’s because I was taller and slimmer than they were. Now in relation to the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell his opinion is that most people have advantages that make them better at what they do. I completely agree with his opinion because it is true most people do have advantages that make them better than others and at what they do. For example, he used hockey players and how the older ones and stronger ones get more training so they are better at the sport than others are. In conclusion, I do believe that some people have advantages and this makes them better at what they do.

Blog Post 2: Synthesis

A sport that I do is dance, and in dance there are some advantages that people can have. One is to just be born with natural dancing skills. Another is to dance from a really young age to any age you want to stop. So yes, there are advantages to dance. In the book we read Gladwell said that people born in January,February, and march have a better chance of getting into the higher level hockey team. I do agree with that, because sometimes they base the teams on age, they don't always base it on skill level. Some sources he used to make his point was the list of players he found, with there birth day on it too, and yes they were convincing sources because they provided evidence to go along with what he was saying.

Aurora Santos Blog Post 2: Synthesis.

 

When I think about accomplishing goals I never thought that you can be born with advantages or disadvantages. I always thought that people who are successful are the people who work really hard for the part. Malcom Gladwell (author of the Outliers) stated “we don’t ride from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage.” He prove that most of the professional hockey player were born in the first three months, because that is when the beginning of the winter season and that they had more lessons to prepare. Schools have done thing as well, if you are born in the early year you would be put you in a high class so when you move on to a high school you are automatic in the advance placement classes all because they had more of a learning step. After all I now I think that we all the great successful people had a big advantage and people don’t even realize.