Tag: Malcolm Gladwell quotes

  • How good a STORYTELLER are you?

    The following self help and motivational 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.” Read similar blogs adopted from the book Blink.

  • Isn’t this a COMMON PATTERN with all GENIUSES?

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

  • Why is too much of RATIONAL THINKING a deterrent to PROGRESS?

    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.”

  • Each one of us has the power of SNAP JUDGEMENT , isn’t it?

    The following great insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink “Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn’t listening to you, that he’s talking down to you, and that he isn’t treating you with respect,…

  • When faced with STRESS have you noted these symptoms?

    The following great insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink “Extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.”

  • Is your CAREER PROGRESSION suffering because of being too REASONABLE?

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

  • How can you EARN COURAGE?

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

  • Why is SUCCESS unthinkable without RISK?

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

  • The QUIRK of EXPERTISE

    The insight has been inspired from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink illuminates us on a quirk of expertise. “When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”

  • Do you want to develop the skill of SNAP JUDGEMENT?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink “Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience”