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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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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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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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 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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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 is being self actualized by knowing
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you ask the right questions‚ you can find the answers. The books Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell dives into the study of how our world works. The amusing Freakonomics deals with how completely opposing phenomena‚ such as schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers‚ can be compared by a common theme‚ like cheating under the right conditions‚ and goes on to make a point that can be connected to various
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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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