Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“How you feel about your abilities – your academic ‘self-concept’- in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It’s a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond that a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year. After that, what economists call “diminishing marginal returns”sets in.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book blink
“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the 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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book blink
“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the 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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink
“Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience.”
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 Outliers
“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”