Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

lo que se aprende por necesidad está mucho más cargado de significado que lo que se aprende fácilmente.

When should we trust our instincts, and when should we consciously think things through? Well, here is a partial answer. On straightforward choices, deliberate analysis is best. When questions of analysis and personal choice start to get complicated—when we have to juggle many different variables—then our unconscious thought processes may be superior.

professors accept

Tarihteki özel yerimizin bize sunduÄŸu özel f?rsatlardan kaynaklan?yor.

passed in those days for computer terminals. In 1971, this was state of the art. The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over

Chamberlain was acting on the same assumption that we all follow in our efforts to make sense of strangers. We believe that the information gathered from a personal interaction is uniquely valuable.

With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue," Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella's kids wiggling and squirming and contorting her face and altogether doing whatever she could to avoid her teacher. "But one of the things we find is that this sort of thing is more often an engagement problem than a behavioral problem. If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged.

we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Italian Roseto. Roseto, Pennsylvania, was its own tiny, self-sufficient world—all but unknown by the society around it—and it might well have

Los niños no ven la tele cuando reciben de ella el estímulo necesario ni apartan la vista cuando sienten que les aburre, sino que la ven cuando pueden comprender y dejan de hacerlo cuando les confunde.

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.

particular egalitarian ethos of the community, which discouraged the wealthy from flaunting their success and helped the unsuccessful obscure their failures. In transplanting

one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based

Wolf's first thought

garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant—given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and

Suicides tend to fall in wartime, for example, and rise in times of economic distress.)

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision

Second, the consumption gap between men and women, so pronounced a generation ago, has narrowed considerably—particularly among white women. (The same trends aren't nearly as marked among Asians, Hispanics, or African Americans.) "I think it's an empowerment issue," Fromme argues:

Puzzle Number Two: How is it that meeting a stranger can sometimes make us worse at making sense of that person than not meeting them?

If we were more thoughtful as a society, if we were willing to engage in some soul searching about how we approach and make sense of strangers Sandra Bland would not have ended up dead in a Texas jail cell.

what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act—and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment—are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.