Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

What is required of us is restraint and humility.

Levine argumenta que este é o pressuposto da transparência em ação. Nós tendemos a julgar a honestidade das pessoas baseadas na maneira como se expressam.

In one of the earliest studies of blackouts, an alcohol researcher named Donald Goodwin gathered ten men from an unemployment line in St. Louis, gave them each the better part of a bottle of bourbon over a four-hour period, then had them perform a series of memory tests. Goodwin writes

But what does the Goldman algorithm say? Quite the opposite: that all that extra information isn't actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.

There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention.

Sternberg'e göre pratik zeka, "kime ne söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek, bunu ne zaman söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek ve maksimum etki için bunu nas?l söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek" gibi ÅŸeyler içeriyor. Bu yöntemseldir: bir ÅŸeyi, neden bildiÄŸinizi bilmeden de, onu aç?klayamadan da nas?l yapaca??n?z? bilmekle ilgilidir. DoÄŸas? gereÄŸi pratiktir.

Many of those who study alcohol no longer consider it an agent of disinhibition. They think of it as an agent of myopia.

that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

Trying to get information out of someone you are sleep-depriving is sort of like trying to get a better signal out of a radio that you are smashing with a sledgehammer.

Ä°ÅŸ bulmak için (öÄŸrenciler) doÄŸru aile ba??na, doÄŸru yeteneÄŸe, doÄŸru kiÅŸiliÄŸe ya da bunlar?n bir kombinasyonuna sahip olmal?d?r. Kabul edilebilirlik olarak adland?r?lan ÅŸey, bu parçalar?n toplam?ndan oluÅŸur. Bir insan bunlardan herhangi birine sahipse kendine bir iÅŸ bulabilir. Ä°kisine sahipse, birden fazla iÅŸ seçeneÄŸi olabilir. Üçüne sahipse istediÄŸi iÅŸe girebilir.

The blindness of Chamberlain and Halifax and Henderson is not at all like Puzzle Number One, from the previous chapter. That was about the inability of otherwise intelligent and dedicated people to understand when they are being deceived. This is a situation where some people were deceived by Hitler and others were not. And the puzzle is that the group who were deceived are the ones you'd expect not to be, while those who saw the truth are the ones you'd think would be deceived.

By making people think about jam, Wilson and Schooler turned them into jam idiots.

remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see

whose students are willing to concentrate and sit still long enough and focus on answering every single question in an endless questionnaire are the same countries whose students do the best job of solving math problems.

no argument in the book has resonated more with readers than this one. We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

were barely more than toddlers. The game was broadcast on Canadian national television. Up and down

If you want to be a great New York lawyer, it is an advantage to be an outsider, and it is an advantage to have parents who did meaningful work, and, better still, it is an advantage to have been born in the early 1930s. But if you have all three advantages -- on top of a good dose of ingenuity and drive -- then that's an unstoppable combination. That's like being a hockey player born on January 1.

Some people had doubts about Sandusky. But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion.

But Tim Levine's research suggests that they aren't random—that we have built a world that systematically discriminates against a class of people who, through no fault of their own, violate our ridiculous ideas about transparency.

This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere.

And of every occupational category, poets have far and away the highest suicide rates—as much as five times higher than the general population. Something about writing poetry appears either to attract the wounded or to open new wounds—and few have so perfectly embodied that image of the doomed genius as Sylvia Plath.1

The problem is that buried among the things that we hate is a class of products that are in that category only because they are weird. They make us nervous. They are sufficiently different that it takes us some time to understand that we actually like them.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that

Today "Hofstede's Dimensions" are among the most widely used paradigms in crosscultural psychology.