Chapter 1: The Matthew Effect This chapter the author states his negative biased opinion on the Story of Success. He gives multiple data findings on how the dates of people’s birth allow them to have undeserved special advantages due to the cut off dates of sports and in education. Mr. Gladwell show that in multiple sports that since the cut of dates were in January 1, those that were born in January through March had a much higher chance of getting into professional than those that are born towards the end of the year. The reason behind this is because those that are born in the beginning of the year, my not mature much faster than others in the sense of their behavior or minds, but physically they will most likely be bigger and stronger. This is typically much desired by most sports, so therefore they have a higher percentage of getting into pro because of the help of the cutoff date. The author also states that he believes those that are born earlier in the year does not correspond to their ability in that sport or whatever they’re doing to be higher. It is just that they get a special advantage and training that their ability then because much greater and the separation begins within the birth dates. Lastly, Mr. Gladwell states that besides passion, talent, and hard work, the last ingredient is the luck of your birth date. Chapter 2: The 10,000-Hour Rule The meaning behind this chapter is that Mr. Gladwell is trying to say that in order to succeed or be a master at something there is something called the 10,000 hour rule and some luck with it. For a sport or in this coding a computer it is very hard and takes a lot of time to learn. For Bill Gates he was able to get the necessary resources to learn this coding and master it since a very young age. This is a benefit for himself being able to excel and practice something numerous of times. This author also talks about innate talent and what is required to excel. He believes that all these successful people obviously have innate talent, but it requires the 10,000 rule and some luck to get to where they are. For instance Bill Gates was able to get thousands of free hours at the time-sharing terminals, as well as get multiple opportunities at coding for companies. All these concepts can be incorporated into our daily lives or into our sports and hobbies. This should help us become better and know what it takes to become as successful and possibly to our goals. A paradigm is basically a pattern that ends up reoccurring many times. I believe that a paradigm can change, but will most likely not be a fast change. It may take many years, maybe even decades. Well since I play golf, I can easily apply the 10,000 hour rule into training and practicing. This can and will be used in school as well, possibly focusing on a subject that I am not as strong about. Chapter 3: The Trouble with Geniuses (Part 1) Well like most people they can work very hard and end up being very smart, almost like a genius. The 10,000 rule applies in this chapter when talking about Chris Langan. He was a very gifted child that could already talk 6 months after being born. But, what he has also done is the 10,000 rule by being able to study multiple subjects at pretty much the time he was born. His family states that he was doing mathematics and studying foreign languages at a very young age. All this studying and effort would add up to over 10,000 hours of studying allowing him to be a genius no matter what. This also helped him become an excellent deep thinker allowing him to become classified as a genius and looked upon highly. I do believe that the phrase said, “To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize and think deep thoughts.” The reason behind this is the IQ tests given need a special knowledge and to know the answers you must think beyond a certain point of a regular person.