We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
Malcolm GladwellIt's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
Malcolm GladwellWe need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
Malcolm GladwellRe-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.
Malcolm GladwellHard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)
Malcolm GladwellTags: work-ethic
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
Malcolm GladwellTags: work-ethic
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
Malcolm GladwellCharacter isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.
Malcolm GladwellTags: tipping-point
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Malcolm GladwellThat is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
Malcolm GladwellTags: sociology group-dynamics
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