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I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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...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.
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The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.
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By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.
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There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of.
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Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
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Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.
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The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
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understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
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Emotion is contagious.
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There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.
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Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
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Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
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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.
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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.
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Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.
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It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
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The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.
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