Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Çok çal??mak, ancak hiçbir anlam ta??mad???nda bir hapis cezas?d?r. Anlam? olduÄŸunda, eÅŸinizi belinden yakalay?p durmaks?z?n döndürmenize neden olacak türde bir ÅŸeye dönüÅŸür.

Nuestro inconsciente es una fuerza poderosa, pero falible. Nuestro ordenador interno no siempre se abre paso en las tinieblas ni descubre al instante la «verdad» de una situación. Puede ser derrotado, distraído y neutralizado.

el intelecto y el logro están muy lejos de correlacionarse perfectamente».

adolescencia del arte occidental».

We are what we read. It's probably better that way.

They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. It would be a little bit more complicated administratively. But it wouldn't necessarily cost that much more money, and it would level the playing field for those who—through no fault of their own—have been dealt a big disadvantage by the educational system.

we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and

Yeterince çal???r, kendinizi ortaya koyar ve beyninizi ve hayal gücünüzü kullan?rsan?z, dünyay? istediÄŸiniz gibi biçimlendirebilirsiniz.

one. It's the kind of really hard question that comes at the end of the Raven's.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

I never had any great desire to be well-known or to sell a lot of books. … Maybe that's paradoxically one of the reasons why I've done well. People sense that I'm doing things out of pure enjoyment. I'm not pandering to an audience or following a formula. I'm just writing about cool stuff that interests me, and people respond to that.

The point of Levine's research was to try to answer one of the biggest puzzles in human psychology: why are we so bad at detecting lies? You'd think we'd be good at it. Logic says that it would be very useful for human beings to know when they are being deceived. Evolution, over many millions of years, should have favored people with the ability to pick up the subtle signs of deception. But it hasn't.

Un típico accidente comprende siete errores humanos consecutivos.

see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 Introduction Goliath "Am I a dog that you should come to

BaÅŸar? tesadüf deÄŸildir. Öngörülebilir ve güçlü bir dizi koÅŸul ve f?rsatlardan ortaya ç?kar.

hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.

The plan was okay—basically okay—but here we are trying to find something to win the war the easy way, and there ain't no such animal.

We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy (p. 50).

Bir aile bir diÄŸer aileyle sava??yorsa bu bir kan davas?d?r. Ayn? daÄŸ çevresinde konumlanm?? küçük kasabalar içerisinde pek çok aile birbiriyle sava??yorsa bu bir modeldir.

Suicide rates in 20th century Britain] goes way up when town gas first makes its way into British homes and comes plunging down as the changeover to natural gas begins in the late 1960s. In that 10 year window as town gas was being slowly phased out, thousands of deaths were prevented.

We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy (p. 50)

On average the people watching the videos correctly identified the lairs 56% of the time. Other sociologist have tried similar versions of the same experiment, the average for all of them? 54%. Just about everyone is terrible, police officers, judges, therapists even CIA officers running big spy networks. Everyone. Why? Tim Levine answer is called Truth-default theory.