Malcolm Gladwell’s arguments center around an idea he calls “thin-slicing.” Thin-slicing is the concept that our unconscious can take lightning-quick bits of experiences and use preconceived notions about behaviors and situations to interpret them. Our unconscious thin-slices the world around us on a constantly– every person we meet or even already know we thin-slice. In times of panic‚ our brains rely on those split-second decisions based on what we have unconsciously observed. The reactions that
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The Tipping point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcom Gladwell is a novel that reveals how ideas‚ messages‚ products‚ and behaviors spread‚ which is explained through three rules heavily influence the Tipping Point and are required for one to consider a scenario as the Tipping Point. The Tipping Point is described as the moment of critical mass‚ the threshold or boiling point that results in change (Gladwell‚ 2000‚ p.12). To explain the Tipping Point Gladwell informs the reader
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The Tipping Point 1. What do you think you are most like? A maven‚ salesman‚ or connector? Or none of them? Why? 2. Can you think of an example of Tipping Point in the past‚ not discussed in the book? 3. Can you think of an example of Tipping Point in the present‚ not discussed in the book? Maybe one that you could have been affected by? 4. Can you think of an example of broken glass theory that you have experienced in your life? 5. Can you think of an example of a fad that has exploded recently
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n the novel‚ The Tipping Point‚ by Malcolm Gladwell epidemics are meant to include smoking‚ crime and even Hush Puppies. People you know can spread social or medical epidemics. Epidemic: Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time. In the novel‚ The Tipping Point‚ by Malcolm Gladwell he explains many epidemics that have effected everyone in one way or another. For example‚ Hush Puppies‚ teenage smoking‚ and crime in cities
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To understand the mentality and actions of the girls portrayed in the Salem Witch Trials‚ we must first make connections between The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the play based on the trials‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ and the HUAC hearing in the mid 1950’s. Historians have had trouble figuring out what caused the mass hysteria of witch hunts to happen‚ but most agree on the fact that the girls felt powerful being able to call anyone a witch and get away with it. Similar events transpired
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Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point offers a fascinating and insightful way to think about the issue of epidemics. Those elements Gladwell believes are the basis for why epidemics start allows the reader to think about their world in a way they never thought they could. I would not have thought of Sesame Street or Blue’s clues as being defined as epidemics. When one thinks of an epidemic‚ one thinks of AIDS‚ or some form of disease so widespread that it must be contained and a cure provided
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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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“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you can shape the world to your desires.” In the book ’outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Gladwell States that there is no such thing as a self made person. That if you succeed in life it depends on who you are and where you came from. I disagree with this statement for the reason that‚ although this may be occasionally correct‚ mostly it isn’t true . There are many people who have created success for themselves and
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“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by: Malcolm Gladwell A Summary: The Tipping Point presents us mainly with three rules or characteristics of “the tipping point” or an epidemic‚ and these are: 1. The Law of the Few 2. The Stickiness Factor 3. The Power of Context The Law of the Few There are three kinds of “the few”‚ namely: Connectors‚ Mavens and the Salesmen. The Connectors are the kinds of people who know lots of people‚ and are able to get a message
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An interesting section In the Tipping Point is when Malcolm explains how being alone vs. being in a group can change how you think. He also explains that small groups are more powerful than large groups of people. Malcolm shows us that there are many types of connectors. Instead of individual connectors like Paul Revere‚ there are connectors that are groups. Malcolm states “that when people are asked to consider evidence or make decisions in a group‚ they come to very different conclusions than
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