“Am I dog that you should come to me with sticks?” Did you know that there is no evidence that correlates smaller classrooms with better grades? Why did a Pakistani immigrant in America find amazing success coaching a women’s basketball team despite having no familiarity with the sport? Why was Martin Luther King and his associate Wyatt Walker so keen ...
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What makes a genius? What makes a genius stand out from the pack in a professional sports team, in classical music, in pop music, in Silicon Valley, in literature, in science, in anything? It’s a surprisingly simple formula according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. It’s ten thousand hours of practise. Outliers is a much more focused and thematically ...
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Although he’s been a pretty well established author for some time, I only discovered Malcolm Gladwell for myself about a year ago, when I read What The Dog Saw, an eclectic collection of his articles from the New Yorker. Blink was an earlier book of his, published in 2005 and carries the full title Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ...
Read More »When I was visiting some friends in London last year, a boyfriend of a friend recommended an author to me by the name of Malcolm Gladwell. At the time, I was appallingly drunk and had to ask him to repeat the name of the author no less than seven times. After that, it must have stayed in some dormant part ...
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