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

    This is why those who innovate are not afraid to challenge the STATUS QUO.

  • 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 needless to say most renowned artists end up being unreasonable..

  • To CHANGE PEOPLE BELIEF and BEHAVIOR,THIS is a MUST..

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book tipping Point.

    “If you want to bring a fundamental change in people’s belief and behavior…you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.”

    This is why great leaders create communities.

  • Why getting TRUE FRIENDS is real tough?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point

    “To be someone’s best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

    Hence if you have found a true friend , consider yourself very lucky.