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
Working really hard is what successful people do...
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
The successful are those who have been given opportunities,
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?