Malcolm Gladwell

better. In the article The Engineer’s Lament, Malcolm Gladwell uses testimonial and anecdotes to express their viewpoints on several controversial issues relating to automobiles. As the article progress, Gladwell describes a variety of situations from the perspective of Denny Gioia, who works as an engineer at the recall office at Ford Motor Company. This article is intended to inform readers who demonstrate an interest in safety features of vehicles. Gladwell discusses a universal issue that…

Malcolm Gladwell in the third chapter to Outliers, "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1", argues that those who have higher IQ (whom those have the higher intelligences than the average IQ standardization bar), are the onlookers for society, "[for] we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.(75)", Lewis Terman said to believe in. Gladwell supports his arguement by demonstrating both examples from given IQ test in the…

In the Blink written by Malcolm Gladwell creates very fascinating terminologies to describe "triggers which influence our behavior without our awareness of such changes". One of the terms that he uses in a Blink is "Priming". Malcolm Gladwell describes this word by scattering the words in test relating to older people like "worried," "Florida," "old," "lonely," "gray," "bingo," and "wrinkle" to make participants adaptive unconscious think about the state of being old. Priming brings the old…

“Fascinating! Eye-Opening! Important!” David Brooks said it best. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell was all those things and more. Gladwell did a great job writing this book. It was wonderful. He takes us through many different stories to explain how we think. He shows us what snap judgments are, and how and when to use them. He educates us on how we think, and it’s enlightening. He starts off the book with a story of a statue, more specifically a kouros. A man…

After thoroughly researching and gathering knowledge to try and understand why some things spread like crazy, while others fade away Malcolm Gladwell proposes a theory called, the tipping point, which is the moment when issues reaches its peak or max capacity and begins to change. Gladwell provides the reader with a great example of this theory when he states, “New York City in the 1980s, a city in the grip of one of the worst crime epidemics in its history. But then…the epidemic tipped. From a…

In 2008, journalist Malcolm Gladwell published Outliers, a best-selling book about how we measure success as a society. Gladwell employs a conversational tone when discussing how we measure success, and touches upon common misconceptions regarding the matter. One chapter, entitled “The Matthew Effect,” highlights how individuals born on a certain year and month are able to take advantage of any given opportunities that were offered to them, varying on the year and month they were born in.…

Malcolm Gladwell's novel The Outliers has provoked many different feelings including liberation, curiosity, and even helplessness. However, after reading this novel, the feeling of inspiration trumps all others. Throughout Gladwell’s book, he used a variety of different people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and education levels to show how they became or did not become successful. In the end, if a person was born at the right time, had the correct background, were in a specific…

learn as much about someone in a Blink as we would spending months with them? Malcolm Gladwell sure thinks so in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In it he explains several aspects of psychology, specifically snap judgments and the adaptive unconscious through many studies, facts, and tests. “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis,” states Gladwell (Gladwell). What is seen in this blink of an eye? What controls this? What is it?…

In the short story “Outliers: The Story of Success,” author Malcolm Gladwell claims that to become a successful musician, practice plays a bigger role than talent. First, Gladwell supports his claim by adding in statistics from a survey taken in the early 1990’s by a psychologist named K. Anders Ericsson. The survey consisted of three groups of violinists. The first group was made of stars who had the potential to become “world-class soloists.” The second group contained “merely ‘good’” players…

Failure" Article; Malcolm Gladwell, the author, discussed that there are differences between panicking and choking (Gladwell, 2000). The author also considers that both panicking and choking is as bad as giving up and that they are also seen as failures (Gladwell, 2000). Choking is to be overwhelmed and under pressure. In fact, choking is a sense of overthinking. In contrast to choking, panicking is having that feeling of being underestimated and unfocused. In the article, Gladwell included…