There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works. Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes From Malcolm Gladwell The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done. Malcolm Gladwell pain drinking winning Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. Malcolm Gladwell kitchen genius years If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success. Malcolm Gladwell guy warning promise People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences. Malcolm Gladwell rich helping people It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. Malcolm Gladwell vulnerable different research That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting. Malcolm Gladwell advice people thinking In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell. Malcolm Gladwell rivers order ideas What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement. Malcolm Gladwell achievement adults children Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about. Malcolm Gladwell thoughtful new-york funny The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids. Malcolm Gladwell media baseball talking People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them. Malcolm Gladwell coffee reading opportunity Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome. Malcolm Gladwell obstacles pressure overcoming We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. Malcolm Gladwell attitude motivational inspirational [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. Malcolm Gladwell technology motivation inspiration When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. Malcolm Gladwell esoteric taste experts It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage. Malcolm Gladwell successful teaching opportunity understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. Malcolm Gladwell understanding decision people The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. Malcolm Gladwell hard-work kings opportunity You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it. Malcolm Gladwell manage social should Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish Malcolm Gladwell importance lessons numbers
