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  • 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

    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. They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.”

  • 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 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-five thousand and your neighbor makes a hundred thousand, that extra twenty-five thousand a year means that your neighbor can drive a nicer car and go out to eat slightly more often.

    But it doesn’t make your neighbor happier than you, or better equipped to do the thousands of small and large things that make for being a good parent.

  • Human Progression depends on UNREASONABILITY , this is why

    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.”

  • Does our affiliation with ELITE institutions really make us BETTER off?This will make us think again

    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 advantages limit our options.”

  • This is why NECESSITY is the mother of invention

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily”

  • When we CONQUER FEAR , this happens

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.”

  • This would inspire an UNDERDOG when faced with a GIANT

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

    And the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate: it can open doors and create opportunities and educate and enlighten and make possible what might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.”

  • Why should you be a BIG FISH in a SMALL POND?

    Adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath, shows why you should be a big fish in a small pond.

    The best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.”

  • Extending the “David and Goliath” folklore to gauge the power of UNDERDOGS

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    The reason King Saul is skeptical of David’s chances is that David is small and Goliath is large. Saul thinks of power in terms of physical might. He doesn’t appreciate that power can come in other forms as well – in breaking rules, in substituting speed and surprise for strength.”

  • Extending the “David and Goliath” folklore to gauge the power of UNDERDOGS

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    The reason King Saul is skeptical of David’s chances is that David is small and Goliath is large. Saul thinks of power in terms of physical might. He doesn’t appreciate that power can come in other forms as well – in breaking rules, in substituting speed and surprise for strength.”