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I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.
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People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
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Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
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Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.
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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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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
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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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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
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Change your mind about something significant every day.
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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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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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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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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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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
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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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if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
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