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 of Malcolm Gladwell from his book BLINK.
“This first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking…
The second lesson is that in good decision making, frugality matters.”
Adopted from the following great insight of Malcolm Gladwell from his book BLINK illuminates us on the key insight on snap judgement.
“We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.”
Adopted from the following great insight of Malcolm Gladwell from his book BLINK.
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
Adopted from the following great insight of Malcolm Gladwell from his book BLINK.
“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”
Adopted from the following great insight of Malcolm Gladwell from his book BLINK.
“In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess ‘coup d’oeil’ – which, translated from the French, means ‘power of the glance’: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield.”
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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“It’s much harder than anybody believes to bring up kids in a wealthy environment…People are ruined by challenged economic times. But they’re ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth. It’s difficult at both ends of the spectrum.”
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.”