The Game Theory by Malcolm Gladwell‚ gives amazing insight into the world of professional sport statistics. Gladwell argues that athletic dominance in a team sport can’t always be seen by the eye. Allen Iverson‚ for instance‚ was the 2001-2002 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. He was viewed as one of the best basketball players of his generation. However an algorithm devised by David Berry‚ Martin Schmidt‚ and Stacey Brook‚ shows the true value of a basketball player by grading their number of wins they
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significance of the Examined life Adrian Eames 951105878 Section leader: Elizabeth Grosz The Trial and Death of Socrates takes place during a time in Socrates life where he becomes most reflective. During these final moments of Socrates life a theme arises‚ that of the unexamined life. Socrates claims that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (Apology 38a). Profound as the statement may seem it creates many questions; what is the unexamined life? And why is the idea of an examined life so dear to
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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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to educate these children into becoming the best they can to achieve in the future. In order to increase student success in Anaheim‚ schools must have programs such as mandatory after school study halls and activities. In “Marita’s Bargain” by Malcolm Gladwell‚ I’ve picked up my first quote saying “I think that extended amount of time gives you the chance as a teacher to explain things‚ and more time for the kids to sit and digest everything that’s going on” (10). I see this as a support for my argument
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell explores the idea of “thin-slicing‚” which is the act of the brain only using a small bit of information to make a decision. These types of snap judgements are sometimes thought to be inferior to well thought out and studied decisions. Gladwell shows that well researched decisions are not always better decisions. Rapid cognition‚ or “thin-slicing‚” is observed in many cultures and is used by many people around the world. In some ways‚ one can make the case that “thin-slicing”
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In Plato’s Apology‚ Socrates states that‚ “The unexamined life is not worth living” (38a). I am using the knowledge learned through hours of class discussion of Socrates from the Euthyphro‚ Apology‚ and Crito to explain what Socrates means by “the examined life‚” and why he thinks that it is the only life worth living‚ and why he thinks that it can be lived only with others‚ in Athens. In doing so‚ I have found that the truth sought by Socrates is much more about the journey that one takes while
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In chapter “Wilma Derksen”‚ Malcolm Gladwell talks about different way of using power. There are two words that important to understand the chapter are “crime” and “repercussions”. The first word is crime; this word means an offensive action that may be prosecute by state. This chapter talks about the limit of power through the ways that people uses to react to crime. We can see this word repeats all over this chapter. The second word is repercussions; this word means a bad consequence occurring
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In the #1 national bestseller Blink‚ Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the way we think. Specifically‚ he explains the workings of the unconscious mind in making snap judgments and decisions. He proves that more information is not always a good thing‚ and some of the best decisions come from gut instinct. In the first chapter‚ Malcolm introduces the idea of thin-slicing‚ our unconscious ability to determine what is important in a very short period of time. In more basic terms‚ thin-slicing is our gut
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In the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second‚ in the blink of the eye‚ are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the lives of several people who make‚ or have made‚ important snap decisions with a high level of success or failure. He then explains the logic behind each story and relates it back to his original principle
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Malcolm Gladwell and Jon Krakauer In your last paper you were asked to consider the possible motivation behind Chris McCandless’s decision to abandon conventional knowledge. For this paper we are going to examine the excerpt from Krakauer’s book in a new light-in relation to Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas. In his chapter‚ "The Power of Context‚" Malcolm Gladwell argues for another way to understand one’s relation to "meaning" and knowledge. While Gladwell looks at the epidemic of crime in New York City
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