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| bcec852 | Consider, for example, the following puzzle. I give you a large piece of paper, and I ask you to fold it over once, and then take that folded paper and fold it over again, and then again, and again, until you have refolded the original paper 50 times. How tall do you think the final stack is going to be? In answer to that question, most people will fold the sheet in their mind's eye, and guess that the pile would be as thick as a phone book.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9e23722 | Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking--It will make you wrinkled! It will make you impotent! It will make you dead!--is useless," Harris concludes. "This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments. It is because adults don't approve of smoking--because there is something dangerous and disreputable about it--that teenagers want to do it." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 38efe74 | People at the top are self-conscious about what they say (and rightfully so) because they have position and privilege to protect -- and self-consciousness is the enemy of "interestingness." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8ebac1d | David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. By "giants," I mean powerful opponents of all kinds--from armies and mighty warriors to disability, misfortune, and oppression. Each chapter tells the story of a different person--famous or unknown, ordinary or brilliant--who has faced an outsize challenge and been forced to respond. Should I play by the rules or follow my own instincts? Shall I persevere o.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 257eb04 | forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 37a33fe | 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. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play -- and by "we" I mean society -- in determining who makes it and who doesn't... | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 5c2d9e9 | There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 884b132 | We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is--and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 323539e | you weren't that unhappy. "Contrast him with the Air Corps man of the same education and longevity," Stouffer wrote. His chance of getting promoted to officer was greater than 50 percent. "If he had earned a [promotion], so had the majority of his fellows in the branch, and his achievement was less conspicuous than in the MP's. If he had failed to earn a rating while the majority had succeeded, he had more reason to feel a sense of personal.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 37b0a83 | The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1351e94 | Parents with a child born at the end of the calendar year often think about holding their child back before the start of kindergarten: it's hard for a five-year-old to keep up with a child born many months earlier. But most parents, one suspects, think that whatever disadvantage a younger child faces in kindergarten eventually goes away. But it doesn't. It's just like hockey. The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1df547d | Everything that can be tested must be tested, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1b68da4 | The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called--appropriately enough--the "Big Fish-Little Pond Effect." The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities. Students who would be at the top of their class at a good school can easily fall to the bottom of a really good school. Students who would feel that they have mastered a subject at a good school can have the fe.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a197093 | Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| dd6502a | In teaching, the implications are even more profound. They suggest that we shouldn't be raising standards. We should be lowering them, because there is no point in raising standards if standards don't track with what we care about. Teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree -- and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bb203e1 | is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| fde939a | The "culture of honor" hypothesis says that it matters where you're from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where your great-grandparents and great-great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact. It's just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 13e8f9b | Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? 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. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 89e9222 | hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!! | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| cc7a982 | My father will sit down and give you theories to explain why he does this or that," the son of the billionaire investor George Soros has said. "But I remember seeing it as a kid, and thinking, At least half of this is bull. I mean, you know the reason he changes his position on the market or whatever is because his back starts killing him. He literally goes into a spasm, and it's this early warning sign." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f930e68 | I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2b8b567 | If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8-or roughly 150. "The figure 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9a6167e | They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bc895fa | But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313) | motivational genius | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| f3dc5c8 | Of the three, the third trait--the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment--is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 617e15d | Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan--the architect of Israel's astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War--also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, "David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 25cc5f5 | The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p. 113): "The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that differentiate with high probability between persons who, because of their level of general mental ability, can or cannot attend a regular school (about IQ 50), can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 7.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 61a4c84 | But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7" | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 61816de | It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 615fda2 | The powerful are not as powerful as they seem - nor the weak as weak | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 76aa4f1 | Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from a single generation in a single country. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d8c5126 | Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4f7fc04 | At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8f27bb1 | under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f64dd7c | If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the "talented" from the "untalented"; and if you provide the "talented" with a superior experience, then you're going to end up giving a huge advantage to that small group of people born closest to the cutoff date." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3a2d666 | Suppose you were to total up all the wars over the past two hundred years that occurred between very large and very small countries. Let's say that one side has to be at least ten times larger in population and armed might than the other. How often do you think the bigger side wins? Most of us, I think, would put that number at close to 100 percent. A tenfold difference is a lot. But the actual answer may surprise you. When the political sc.. | large-vs-small-in-war power-ratio | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 6ede9b7 | You have to be outside the establishment--a foreigner new to the game | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 25ccd43 | Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0a8ccb3 | The Hutterites (who came out of the same tradition as the Amish and the Mennonites) have a strict policy that every time a colony approaches 150, they split it in two and start a new one. "Keeping things under 150 just seems to be the best and most efficient way to manage a group of people," Spokane told me. "When things get larger than that, people become strangers to one another." The Hutterites, obviously, didn't get this idea from conte.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b470238 | The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underes.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c50d048 | To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 910f10f | We have given teens more money, so they can construct their own social and material worlds more easily. We have given them more time to spend among themselves -- and less time in the company of adults. We have given them e-mail and beepers and, most of all, cellular phones, so that they can fill in all the dead spots in their day -- dead spots that might once have been filled with the voices of adults -- with the voices of their peers. That.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| dac6c6b | When we see the giant, why do we automatically assume the battle is his for the winning? | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9bc7078 | Owe no one anything except to love one another; | Malcolm Gladwell |