Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky--but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.
Malcolm GladwellDo you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.
Malcolm GladwellStichwörter: commentary
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.
Malcolm GladwellThere are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
Malcolm GladwellPeople are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.
Malcolm GladwellStichwörter: common-sense
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
Malcolm GladwellWhy are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft
Malcolm GladwellThe ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm GladwellStichwörter: originality journalism plagiarism
Emotion is contagious.
Malcolm GladwellMy earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
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