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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To Think or Not To Think‚ That is The Question “Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers” (260). Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about understanding how we arrive at the judgments we make. There are two ways that we make every decision: in the blink of an eye or with well thought out decision making processes. In this book Gladwell explores the many different ways that we make decisions using our adaptive unconscious. He attempts to convince the reader that snap
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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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Malcolm Gladwell has worked for the New Yorker and the Washington Post‚ and has multiple bestselling titles to his name. As a journalist and a public speaker‚ Gladwell’s work demands an accessible (and at times witty) tone‚ and this pattern is evident in Outliers: The Story of Success. A short read with helpful footnotes may disguise itself as yet another grabby “guide to success‚” but Outliers defies this preconceived notion. Rather‚ it challenges the exhausted trope of the “rags to riches” story
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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The Tipping Point The Tipping Point‚ written by Malcolm Gladwell‚ explains epidemics. He explains how a few key elements come together and help reach a point where they are spreading and cannot be stopped. The ways that some trends achieve popularity while others sputter and fade fade away have long been thought to be not known. However‚ Gladwell’s is that there are actually a number of factors that are at play in virtually every influential trend. These rules are The Law of The Few‚ The Stickiness
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and prestigious backgrounds‚simple lives of less fortunate can also contribute to the level of success one can achieve in life.Success is greatly influenced by one’s lifestyle and background because they motivate one to strive for change like Malcolm Gladwell‚ who advocated the importance of underdogs‚the poem “if” with the theme of success and the eminent writer‚shakespeare’s famous quote which provides germane details on the impact of one’s background that defines complete success in life.Success
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Success by Malcolm Gladwell is about how there are certain cultural and societal events that happen to give rise to successful people. He debunks the myth that successful people are “self-made”. In this book he explains how there are hidden advantages for certain and how these people are able to rise in the world where others cannot. Gladwell states “great men and women are beneficiaries of specialization‚ collaboration‚ time‚ place‚ and culture.” Throughout the book Malcolm Gladwell explains the
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possess free will and influence their future‚ or that individual’s fate is predetermined by another unknown force. “Outliers: The Story of Success‚” by Malcolm Gladwell‚ a nonfiction story‚ describes the importance of practice in order to master the skills that allow professionals to properly perform their occupations. Throughout the story‚ Gladwell utilizes numerous examples comparing differing groups of individuals based off of their hours dedicated to practicing a certain
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