Malcolm Gladwell has worked for the New Yorker and the Washington Post‚ and has multiple bestselling titles to his name. As a journalist and a public speaker‚ Gladwell’s work demands an accessible (and at times witty) tone‚ and this pattern is evident in Outliers: The Story of Success. A short read with helpful footnotes may disguise itself as yet another grabby “guide to success‚” but Outliers defies this preconceived notion. Rather‚ it challenges the exhausted trope of the “rags to riches” story
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To Think or Not To Think‚ That is The Question “Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers” (260). Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about understanding how we arrive at the judgments we make. There are two ways that we make every decision: in the blink of an eye or with well thought out decision making processes. In this book Gladwell explores the many different ways that we make decisions using our adaptive unconscious. He attempts to convince the reader that snap
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came across was called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book on my flight to Asia I fell in love with the book and admired the author. His writing was organized in a way where it was easy to comprehend and he was able to support his evidence with research and statistics. Although there are a lot of scholarly terms that is used to support his study‚ he uses a more simplified language to make these terms more understandable and later backs up his simple language with intellectual
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Technology is Eating us Technology in all of its forms -- social networks‚ smart phones‚ the Web‚ instant messaging‚ online gaming -- is a net loss for today’s young people. There are so many things that technology has given us that are wonderful‚ but we all know that too much of a good thing can be bad. We have managed to use and abuse these wonderful advancements to the point where sometimes I wish that they hadn’t been invented. Mobile phones are also things that have exploded in popularity
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if parenting is really that influential‚ or the effectiveness of children’s tv shows‚ as long as you ask the right questions‚ you can find the answers. The books Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell dives into the study of how our world works. The amusing Freakonomics deals with how completely opposing phenomena‚ such as schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers‚ can be compared by a common theme‚ like cheating under the right conditions‚ and goes
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lives.In particular Malcolm Gladwell’s book explains a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks‚ each of the results of a different social science experiment. The Love Lab‚ Marriage and Morse code‚and Importance of contempt. In these chapters Gladwell observes and explains how much you can find out about a person‚and relationships by watching clips to viewing a room to labeling a marriage. Gladwell gets to experience how
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Success by Malcolm Gladwell is about how there are certain cultural and societal events that happen to give rise to successful people. He debunks the myth that successful people are “self-made”. In this book he explains how there are hidden advantages for certain and how these people are able to rise in the world where others cannot. Gladwell states “great men and women are beneficiaries of specialization‚ collaboration‚ time‚ place‚ and culture.” Throughout the book Malcolm Gladwell explains the
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The 10‚000 Hour Rule: Just How True is it? On page 40 of Outliers‚ a novel written by pop-psych author Malcolm Gladwell‚ neurologist Daniel Levitin explains‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” Gladwell takes this quote and heavily relies on it with his thesis for the next chapter‚ which basically says that anyone can become a master in anything with
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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and prestigious backgrounds‚simple lives of less fortunate can also contribute to the level of success one can achieve in life.Success is greatly influenced by one’s lifestyle and background because they motivate one to strive for change like Malcolm Gladwell‚ who advocated the importance of underdogs‚the poem “if” with the theme of success and the eminent writer‚shakespeare’s famous quote which provides germane details on the impact of one’s background that defines complete success in life.Success
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