Malcolm Gladwell

10,000 Hour Argument Practice makes perfect, or so they say, but is that really true? There are conflicting opinions on how much practice it takes to master a skill. In the novel Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. In the article “Your Genes Don’t Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of Practice Won’t Make You an Expert” the author says that 10,000 hours of practice is not the only thing that it takes to master a skill. I agree with the author who says 10,000 hours of…

Economic standing combined with cultural viewpoints ultimately motivate a person to work for success. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, uses these concepts to tell the story of a woman who overcomes her obstacles in order to become educated. This woman, Daisy, works with fervor in order to receive a coveted higher education. With an optimistic tone that conveys dedication, Gladwell tells of the influence that one’s culture has on a motivated individual. The author writes,“She didn’t feel…

Malcom Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who also is one of the bestselling author of the century. He had written total of five books and one of them has become the bestselling and started his writer career is “Blink”. The book “Blink” was publish in 2005 and it is about how human subconscious interfere with the decision making. Human mind works in a weird way that nobody can understand. Many psychologists have tried to study human mind to see how it works the way it is. In Blink, Gladwell…

Malcolm Gladwell’s goal of his book “Outliers,” is simply to help his audience have a better understanding of what makes people successful. I can see that Gladwell’s points are backed up with examples, evidence, and statistics, which can be very convincing. However, I feel as though Gladwell is somewhat contradictory while trying to achieve his goal. I felt this after reading Chapter 2. In this chapter, Gladwell discusses the idea of hard work and devotion, alluding to the 10,000 rule, using…

Collaboration For All Scrutinizing Teamwork Smooth and amicable cooperation between two or more individuals is a vital component in any personal or work-based relationship. From previously feuding lovers striving to coalesce the fragments of their broken marriage, to an operating room packed to the brim full of doctors and nurses, working as a team builds unshakeable connections and engenders the most significant of improvements in human interaction. While it is evident that teamwork is…

In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell discusses about the theories of snap judgment. There are many interesting themes that I have learn from his book. People judge other people within few seconds by looking at their behavior and appearance. The balance between rationalization and intuition. Human’s emotion can be seen in on the face even involuntary or voluntary. Interestingly, he also states that the less information is better if we can understand it clearly and correctly. The Blink book is a…

Scientists and healthcare professionals have conducted un-ending researches to understand how a trend or outbreak becomes an epidemic or reaches a tipping point. Malcolm Gladwell tries to rationalize this phenomenon in his book “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.” Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, was formerly a business and science reporter at the Washington Post whose interest in writing focused on trends and the nature of things. The author forms…

achieved, It made me almost made give up on trying to be successful. I asked myself many questions such as”should I even try to be successful?” and “What even is the point if my destiny is already decided?” I then realized that this book in which Malcolm Gladwell claims to be the way to success is only half correct. Sure being born in January many give you the advantage of being a hockey player or being asian makes you good at math, but without determination you would never get anywhere. Just…

Outliers: The Story of Success Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell is a book written with the intent to inform or to guide your way of thinking about how success is actually achieved. The book defines outliers as “the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies” (Gladwell 3). Malcolm Gladwell is convincing in his writings by making you believe that success is not achieved by hard work or being naturally gifted, as most of us tend to believe, but…

In the book ¨Blink¨, the author Malcolm Gladwell explains his research on how the brain makes connections and comes to conclusions. One does this from the information around them without even knowing, which is called “thin-slicing”. “Thin-slicing” is one’s skill in their unconscious with a small amount of experience to “find patterns in situations” (23) and make an accurate explanation. In Gladwell’s first section, ‘The Love Lab’, the psychologist John Gottman gives his analysis of the data he…