How does outliers connect to my life

In Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, the book describes several ways in which opportunities effect the outcome and success of certain people. The book also describes how these opportunities can effect all of us in our life. After reading Outliers I have made several connections to how these certain opportunities have effected to my life and lead to my success.
                 One connection to my life I have made from Outliers is my academic success in subjects such as Global. In the chapter about lawyers and their success due to being Jewish and being born in the 1930s I have amde the connection that the reason i find Global intersting and not as challenging as other classes is because of my family history. In the chapter about lawyers, Gladwell explains that the lawyers he discusses were successful mainly because their jewish culture and convenient birth date. "It's 1930, because that would give the lawyer the benefit of a blessedly small generation." (156). I find that my ease with the subject of global comes from my parents who are both archaeologists. History is a subject that cannot be avoided in my house, when it is discussed it is discussed in depth and in a correct manor. We know what we are talking about. This is one connection to how outliers connects to my life.
              Another way in which Outliers connects to my life is in the fact that I learned how to read and write before oct of my peers.  In Outliers Gladwell discusses how what part of the year you are born with effects your ability compared to athletic competitors. "...a twelve month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity."(24). True, Gladwell is talking about physical maturity rather than mental maturity but because I was born on the 22 of december i was born close to the school cut off. That put me in a class of children who are generally younger, and generally less academically mature. Yes there is an exception to every rule but because most of the english material came easily to me, due to the fact I could easily wrap my head around the material I soon advanced through normal classes. Because I was smart enough I could challenge myself in reading and writing, similar to the way in which Gladwell describes a tall basketball player challenging himself in other athletic skills "Once someone is tall enough, then we starts to care about speed and court sense and agility and ball handling skills and shooting touch." (86) Now I have been in two english honors classes and tend to keep my grade up above and 87. This connects my life to Outliers because it is similar to the section on hockey players and their birth dates.
            The third way in which Outliers connects to my life is my observation of the different system in which parents raise their children. Gladwell discusses the use of "Cultivate Parenting"a form of parenting in which parents encourage their children to be comfortable around adults, asks questions to which they want answer and not to be afraid of authority. Gladwell says on page 103 "They expect their children to talk back to them, to negotiate, to question adults in positions of authority." I remember sitting in the car of my cousin and listening to the way that him and his mother conversed. They talked about things that me and my parents talk about but in a different way. My cousins mother asked a lot of questions and whatever they were talking about was analyzed deeply. I remember thinking that the way they were talking was annoying to me. Its not as if my parents are bad parents and were are in no way poor, but "Cultivate parenting" was more intense in my cousins house hold than mine and I picked up on it. This is a connection between Outliers and my life because I have picked up on what Gladwell is saying about cultivate parenting.
              Outliers, bu Malcom Gladwell connects to my life in severely ways. I'm sure it connects in more ways than the tree that I have listed. I believe that success is a combination of determination, effort, luck and opportunity. AS Gladwell says "The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But intact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities..." (19)  I also believe that is important to recognize these things. Outliers is a great and interesting read to which we can all make connections to in the confusion and adventure of life.