In “Outliers: The Story of Success”, by Malcolm Gladwell, examines the lives of people that have achieved success. These people have had this opportunity due to their innate ability or a chance they were given. Gladwell challenges our way of thinking on how we think the self-made man or woman are beyond intelligent and extraordinary, but in any average person can become this role. In order to achieve success in this world you must have practical intelligence and have an opportunity open for you to be able to become something out of the ordinary. In today’s world many people have come to think that in order to become successful you need to come from a wealthy family or have an outstanding IQ to become a Nobel Prize winner or a company monopoly; however it has been proven by Gladwell that this theory isn’t true at all. What happened to Terman and his Termites was a complete failure, these children were the top of their class all their childhood and once they hit adulthood they became regular citizens. Gladwell shows us how many Nobel Prize winners, that don’t have a very high IQ and many other people with lower IQ score, have done something with their lives. This proves that high IQ isn’t the ticket to success, there is still more to it. In the fourth chapter, “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2”, Gladwell compares two geniuses, Christopher Langan and Robert Oppenheimer. Both of these men were intelligent people, both had a way to deal with school and knew the knowledge of physics, but only one became successful. Langan was a poor kid that grew up in a ranch, ever since he was in grade school he was able to understand everything that went by him. Once he stepped into college, he experienced “culture shock” so he was a nervous, shy boy that didn’t know how to communicate with people to get by. Oppenheimer had his way with words, he was born from a wealthy family, and later on he went to Harvard, later he suff