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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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If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.
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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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If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's The Sports Gene it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
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What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.
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In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
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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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Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
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Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
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Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
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People don't rise from nothing.
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People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
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So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.
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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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You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
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Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.
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We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.
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