Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
Category: Self Help
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Giving up in 30 seconds vs working hard for 22 minutes , the choice makes the difference
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
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This is the common pattern with most innovators
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.”
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This is WHY UNDERDOGS many a times overpower favorites
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.”
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Wanna conquer your fear , this will inspire
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.”
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Human progress hinges on unreasonability , this highlights the paradox
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “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.
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Do you want to OVERCOME a GIANT?
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath inspires us as to how to overcome a giant.
“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.”
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This is when we truly feel courageous
Adopted from the following insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”
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When we become experts at something , this is what happens
Adopted from the following great insight provided by Malcolm Gladwell in his book BLINK.
“When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”
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Key Takeaway from Malcolm Gladwell’s book BLINK
Adopted from the following great insight provided by Malcolm Gladwell in his book BLINK.
“We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.”