The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink
“The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious – from behind a locked door inside of our brain – but just because something is outside of awareness doesn’t mean it’s outside of control.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers
“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers
“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 after thirty seconds.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers
“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s 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.”
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 following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point
“If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8-or roughly 150. “The figure 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s great quote
“Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s inspiring quote
“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”