Quotes About Malcolm Gladwell

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

The research on the importance of practice was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell (2008) when he argued that ten thousand hours of practice are necessary to become an expert in a field.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

The three rules of the Tipping Point—the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context—offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.

Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.

twenty, so they'd be born in the late sixties." "No, no," Paula went on. "What month." "I thought she was crazy," Barnsley remembers. "But I looked through it, and what she was saying just jumped

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation.

elders.' " Working in collaboration with a small group of programmers, Joy took on the task of rewriting UNIX, which was a software system

likely to commit a crime while awaiting trial than the 400,000 people released by the judges of New York City. 25 percent! In the bake-off, machine destroyed man.4

captures this poignancy in his memoir, which was published in 1942. He called it The Happiest Man. After numerous chapters brimming with optimism and cheer, the book ends with the sobering reality of Nazi-dominated Europe. Had The Happiest Man been published in 1945, when the

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The transparency problem ends up in the same place as the default-to-truth problem. Our strategies for dealing with strangers are deeply flawed, but they are also socially necessary.

would listen to the radio on Sundays as the announcer read the comics aloud, and he would follow along on his own until he had

Levine's theories are laid out in his book, Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019). If you want to understand how deception works, there is no better

So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places.

The line between hostility and acceptance between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems.

Sometimes, proof is just another word to prolong suffering

all that much. 3 Clear first described his ideas some years ago in a research paper entitled

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

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