Malcolm Gladwell

agree with you that certain behaviors can establish trends with a society because like Malcolm said if you tell a connector about a certain restaurant his response would result in him telling many people about that certain restaurant which can result in a tipping point in a trend.Although I don't agree with you when you quoted “tipping points can happen whenever and wherever” because later on in the book Malcolm talks about the power of context and how “epidemic are sensitive to the conditions…

Factors in THE PACT In The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, Three teenagers who grew up in community with poverty and violent dedicate themselves for changing their lives and becoming successful. Rameck is the one who can be easiest to succeed and gets most benefits. Although he had gotten troubles with his families, friends or education and almost broke their dream, there still are several factors bring up his success. Especially these factors include institutional…

A turning point in a novel is often a point when the plot heads in a new direction due to a choice or a dilemma. It’s a part in the story when a character takes an important step toward changing his or her situation. This can cause a change in the character's personality and in the events in her life. In the novel, Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz, the protagonist Esperanza unwillingly escapes her life of luxury to immigrate to the United States. Her turning point is when her mother becomes sick…

Success is something everyone wants to achieve and many are willing to do anything to feel successful. If someone wants to reach success they need to put in effort, practice everyday and willing to go through failure. Many well known scientists, authors, and therapists like Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, Jay Mathews, and Daniel Keyes agree with this statement because they shared information and thoughts through articles and videos. Effort is the first step to being successful, Based on Carol…

Do you know any over-achievers? Do they seem responsible and in control? If the answers are yes, chances are that those people are the firstborn children in their family. Those people could also be only children. All individuals that fit into one of these categories are most likely to succeed. Firstborns tend to be high achievers and strive to meet near impossible goals. There is a multitude of traits that firstborn people tend to have. Alfred Alder writes in his article, Alfred Alder Research…

According to an interview that I interviewed a friend who is a successful entrepreneur called Alex Johnson via a phone call, success is living one’s life to the very fullest of one’s designed mission and initial plan since birth. He said that a child is born naked of thought and reason just like a computer is bought, empty, without software that control and instruct the computer to perform tasks as the user would desire. However, a child has something laid down in their DNA that defines who they…

How to get unstuck in your life is the focus of this book from Miller, which looks at high- achieving people who nevertheless got stalled and pulled themselves out. Jody Miller’s book guides the reader through some inspirational accounts of how people broke their personsl or professional stalemates to reach new levels of satisfaction through insights, mentoring or other inner shift of focus. The forward is written by Brad Feld, an example of the type of person Miller is featuring in the book.…

Three Rules of Epidemics “The three rules of the Tipping Point—the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context—offer a way of making sense of epidemics.” (Gladwell 29) In The Tipping Point, Gladwell describes the Law of the Few as the fact that people with “a particular and rare set of social gifts” (Gladwell 33) are influential in social epidemics. Their special personality traits help ideas, trends, and social behaviors to “tip”, or become popular. The Stickiness Factor…

MWA #1 In the article, Success: Entering the Mirror Maze, Dr. Hightower, an experienced high school teacher of 19 years, expresses his opinion on people’s incapability of having a growth mindset and their inadvertent retainment of fixed mindsets. During the period when the competitive society only appreciates obvious successes, Dr. Hightower believes that the society and the aspiring and passionate people who constantly strive to achieve their dreams have concluded that success is virtually…

media is an extension of our body, exhibiting our everyday lifestyle. In Malcolm Gladwell’s essay “Small change”, he described the many viewpoints on the impacts of modern technologies such as social identity, communication dynamics, and even the effect of social media on activism. He clarifies social media by drafting a comparison of events from the various ages we dwelled. I will be discussing how Gladwell disrupts…