The Outliers 2nd Chunk.

In this second chunk of the Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell discusses the topic about how everybody thinks that people with high IQ's are more intelligent than people with lower IQ's, but how that is not necessarily true. It is not true because the IQ test only test people on their ability to solve puzzles, such as the ones he put as examples. The IQ test does not test the people in their ability to think and how many different ways their mind is able to expand. He also states that more people with good IQ's have won more Nobel Prizes than the people with the highest IQ's. It also discussed that this kind of thinking was what cause Terman to be wrong about his special group the "termites". He taught that because they had the highest IQ's they would succeed and all of them would become really successful but he was wrong, some of them became failures. He also discusses about a really smart genius, Chris Langar, and how this guy was even smarter than Einstein. This guy was really smart and had many opportunities to become successful and manage to ruin all of them and end up becoming nothing. Gladwell interviewed him and started asking him questions about the choices he made, Langar was trying to make it sound like a sob story but Gladwell opened it to our eyes how what he said was just nonsense. He also talks about Oppenheimer, how he was really intelligent but often people would not understand him and called him crazy for the things he would do. He was a genius that helped create the atomic bomb but at the same time a crazy man who tried to kill his mentor. He also explains why rich kids are most likely to success that middle class kinds or poor kids. The rich kids succeed more because their parents are more involved with their education and since a young age they teach their children to place themselves at the same level as someone with authority. Unlike the poor kids who parents do not get involved with their education because it is not their job. In this chunk Gladwell gives us a more insight look at how success is, and it all depends how you take advantage of your opportunities, unlike Chris Langar did.

Questions
Clarification- Why do you think that Chris Langar did not try his best to succeed, was he scared to or why?
Style- Do you believe that maybe also depeding on the culture poeple come from, they have different views of education?