Tag: malcolm gladwell insights
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If you WANT PROGRESS be UNREASONABLE..
The insight adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best seller David and Goliath reminds us that un-reasonability and progress go hand in hand.. “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…
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If you are UP AGAINST more FANCIED OPPOSITION, ALWAYS remember this..
The insight adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath is a constant reminder as to why more often than not giants are toppled by less fancied opponents.. “Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.” David and Goliath…
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Is your TASTE getting ESOTERIC by the day? The reason..
The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Blink. “When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.” Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Come let us pile on motivation..
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Why is STORYTELLING a TOUGH SKILL?
The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink.. “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.” Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Come let us pile on motivation..
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What can the LAW of the FEW teach us?
The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Tipping Point.. The insight makes us realize way and means to package information to tip beyond a threshold to create magic. “The Law of the Few says that there are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to…
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How DO we CHOOSE our FRIENDS? Read what RESEARCH has to say..
The insight adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Tipping Point illuminates us on what research has to say as to how we pick and choose our friends.. “A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and…
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What is the MAGIC NUMBER for acquiring TRUE EXPERTISE?
The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Outliers.. “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.“ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Come let us pile on motivation..
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This is what RESEARCH has to say about SUCCESSFUL people..
The insight adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers is truly illuminating and highlights why grit, determination and doggedness has a huge role to play in SUCCESS.. “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…
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Aren’t ALL INNOVATORS connected by this COMMON THREAD?
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s 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…
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Have you wondered why MOST ARTISTS are UNREASONABLE?
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s 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.” Hence…