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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.

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Malcolm Gladwell's Popular Quotes

I don't like things that aren't true.

- Malcolm Gladwell

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't c…

- Malcolm Gladwell

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

- Malcolm Gladwell

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

- Malcolm Gladwell

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

- Malcolm Gladwell

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

- Malcolm Gladwell

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

- Malcolm Gladwell

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

- Malcolm Gladwell

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bot…

- Malcolm Gladwell
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