I find this book extremely interesting! I feel like this book answers a lot of questions that we may have about success and how it can be obtained. It makes me think that becoming successful is not just about ambition and hard work, the way we normally think about success. Becoming successful is up to the opportunities that are available to you as well as the hard work and practice that you put in. Success is mostly about advantages that you have that, when combined with ambition and determination, will get you somewhere. I was amazed at how hockey players and soccer players who were born in the beginning of the year have a certain advantage because they are the older kids. Because they are older, they are open to more opportunities and receive better training whereas those that are born in the other half of the year "have all been discouraged, or overlooked, or pushed out of the sport" (page 31). Not everyone has a fair chance. I especially agree with Gladwell's statement that "Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures" (Page 32). I chose this part because to me, it was very interesting to learn that success is mostly about advantages that you have. In order to be successful, you have to have some type of advantage to help you out because people do in fact, as Gladwell said, personalize success. Not everyone has a fair chance at becoming successful because not everyone has those certain advantages. For example, hockey players and soccer players that are born later on in the year are barely payed attention to because coaches focus more on those who are older and who were born earlier. They don't give the younger kids a chance to prove themselves and they immediately categorize them as failures. This really surprised me because I never really thought about things that way. I always thought that being successful is all up to how determined you are to make it and how hard you try. Overall, this book is makes me view success in a different way.