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Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan—the architect of Israel’s astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War—also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, “David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary)Continue reading “This insight by the ISRAELI DEFENCE minister explains why UNDERDOGS end up toppling giants”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “According to research done by Mitchell Chang of the University of California, the likelihood of someone completing a STEM degree—all things being equal—rises by 2 percentage points for every 10-point decrease in the university’s average SAT score.4 The smarterContinue reading “The SMARTER your PEERS , the more DUMB you feel , research has proved this”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don’t mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, “agreeableness,” they tend to be on the far end of the continuum. TheyContinue reading “The best of INNOVATORS are social risk takers , this is why”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year. After that, what economists call “diminishing marginal returns” sets in. If your family makes seventy-fiveContinue reading “This insight explains the FAMILY INCOME THRESHOLD for happiness”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantagesContinue reading “Does our affiliation with ELITE institutions really make us BETTER off?This will make us think again”