Blink by Malcolm Gladwell I had an overall good reaction to this book. My first thought when looking at the cover was that it was going to be boring but as I began reading it‚ I realized that not only is it not boring‚ it’s actually rather interesting‚ but it could also help me in my life as well. I have a tendency to over think even the simplest things and when I do make a quick decision‚ I always second guess myself. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell is a book that really makes you think about the
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Outliers: The Story of Success is an informative book by Malcolm Gladwell dealing with the topic of human success. The book talks about outliers or “men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.” by Malcolm Gladwell. In Gladwell’s book‚ he mentions that most humans believe that the successful people in the world are “self-made” but that isn’t completely true. The overall theme of the book is that successful human beings don’t rise up from nothing. There are many factors that play into
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Gladwell opens "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" with the tale of a kouros‚ an ancient Greek statue of a youth that entered the market‚ catching the eye of the Getty Museum in California. It was close to seven feet tall‚ perfectly preserved‚ and just under $10 million. The museum went through the voluminous processes to prove its authenticity. A geologist determined that the statue originated in the island of Thasos‚ sheathed in a thin layer of calcite‚ a substance that accumulates
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figures in history? And most of all; how? Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Outliers: The Story of Success”‚ suggests many theories and explanations on how one can become an “outlier” of society by analyzing the triumphs and failures of the people and events that we know very best. Gladwell goes about this book by bringing success down to something that is most relatable in every human. Life. Not just escaping death‚ but living a full and healthy life. Success‚ as Gladwell explains it‚ has a systematic solution
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look like but the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ of the book‚ Outliers‚ The Story of Success‚ defines it by the book. It says‚ “Something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” Gladwell uses this definition as a baseline for the rest of his intriguing book. Gladwell gives us plenty of examples of known outliers in the world and through them Gladwell tells the secrets in becoming
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While on a road of life’s lessons the one’s who suffer a disorder can find their calling in life along the way. Not everyone gets this opportunity to find success while suffering from a disadvantage. Journalist Malcolm Gladwell states‚ “The second‚ more intriguing‚ possibility is that they succeeded in part‚ because of their disorder -- that they learned something in their struggle that proved to be of enormous advantage.” The irony that a disadvantage can bring about a successful advantage that
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had to be the reason that poor immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and college dropouts like Bill Gates achieved unimaginable wealth. Most of us were taught that working harder than anyone else would lead to ultimate success. While the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ does not dispute that hard work in a necessary component‚ we learn that many factors‚ lucky breaks‚ and some coincidences all occur in making high achievers into true outliers. We also learn that many of the richest‚ most famous‚ and most successful
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Malcolm Gladwell opens his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success with the story of Stewart Wolf‚ a physician who revolutionized our understanding of health. Wolf studied digestion at the University of Oklahoma and spent his summers at a farm in Pennsylvania. One summer‚ Wolf was astounded to hear from a colleague that it was extremely rare to “find anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five with heart disease” (Gladwell 6). At the time‚ heart attacks “were the leading cause of death
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Over my four-month summer break my goal was to get my hands on as many books as possible. One of the books that I 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
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3‚ 1963 in Fareham Hampshire‚ England. At the early age of six‚ Malcolm moved to Elmira‚ Ontario‚ Canada with his family. Since Malcolm’s father Graham Gladwell taught mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo. Gladwell spent some of his time wandering and exploring the library where he was led to having a keen interest in reading and literature. During his high school years‚14 year old Malcolm was very involved in middle-distance running
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