Malcolm Gladwell describes a surefire way to become an expert on any topic in chapter two of Outliers. He explains that to be successful you have to work ten thousand hours. Gladwell is a nonfiction writer who collects research data and interprets it as guidelines for success. In the book Outliers he examines dozens of successful people and analyzes their rise to fame and success. Its purpose is to identify misconceptions about how to succeed and praise outliers for beating the odds. His work teaches us how outliers face adversity and how to identify their extraordinary luck, opportunity, and hard work. His writings enlighten the average reader on how a successful person rose to the occasion and the different factors in his life that helped him do so. The intended audience is anyone interested in finding out how much work it took in the past to be the best of the best and how to apply it. In the second chapter of Outliers Gladwell takes us through the lives of computer programmer Bill Joy, world-famous violinists, musical genius Amadeus Mozart, twenty-first century chess grandmasters, the famous British pop band "The Beatles" and the Computer genius and former richest man in the world, Bill Gates. Gladwell's attempt to persuade readers of the Ten Thousand Hour Rule is successful through his use of exemplum, logos, and rhetorical questions. Gladwell narrates the biographical sections of the chapter and walks you through the lives of his "successful" subjects. Explain the cause of success and the effect it has on outliers and their lives. It actually asks rhetorical questions to pique readers' interest in a phenomenon and then explains the phenomenon using people who want to master a certain subject area. The text is easy to read and understand and is very applicable to the average reader. The ten thousand hour rule is currently true and will also be applicable in the future for those who are willing to work hard for their success. The way Gladwell effectively presents his successful arguments shows us how these people became famous and the similarities they share. Repetition of Gladwell's explanation of successful people shows us how all these people are connected to each other and how simple it is to be connected to them too. Gladwell successfully persuaded readers to understand the importance of the Ten Thousand Hour Rule through his writing style and rhetorical devices. Works Cited Gladwell, Malcolm. “10,000 Hour Rule.” Outliers: The success story. New York: Little, Brown and, 2008. Page no. Press.