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Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
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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In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.
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As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.
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The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
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Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
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Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
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Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.
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We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
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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.
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if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
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What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
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Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?
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So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.
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Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.
Malcolm Gladwell
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
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Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
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