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 shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink
“The 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 shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink
“Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can’t look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret – and decode – what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink
“Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority…because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.”
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 Blink
“Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the 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 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
“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 shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan—the architect of Israel’s astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War—also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, “David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger.”