Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell, CMis an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Outliers: The Story of Success, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. All five books were...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 September 1963
CountryCanada
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Arousal leaves us mind-blind.
Change your mind about something significant every day.
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
The successful are those who have been given opportunities,
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.