Tag: david and goliath

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how…

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 “David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how…

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.”

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…

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 “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…

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”