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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“How you feel about your abilities – your academic ‘self-concept’– in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It’s a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.”
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.”
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
“Those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive atmosphere.
Citizens of happy countries have higher suicide rates than citizens of unhappy countries, because they look at the smiling faces around them and the contrast is too great.
Students at “great” schools look at the brilliant students around them, and how do you think they feel?
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.
Students who would be at the top of their class at a good school can easily fall to the bottom of a really good school.
Students who would feel that they have mastered a subject at a good school can have the feeling that they are falling farther and farther behind in a really good school.
And that feeling—as subjective and ridiculous and irrational”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“Citizens in happy countries have higher suicide rates than citizens of unhappy countries, because they look at the smiling faces around them and the contrast is too great.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“If you are a student – particularly a poor student – what you need is to have people around you asking the same questions…class-size reduction “steals away the peers that struggling students can learn from.”