The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.
I don't like things that aren't true. - Malcolm Gladwell
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
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…
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing. - Malcolm Gladwell
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. - Malcolm Gladwell
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. - Malcolm Gladwell
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. - Malcolm Gladwell
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. - Malcolm Gladwell
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do. - Malcolm Gladwell
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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
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…
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