The Tipping Point

The sixteenth photo I had taken is a photo of a book by the title of “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell. The reason why I have chosen this photo is because the book has taught me that the little things around us can make a big difference. The seventeenth photo I had taken is a photo of a book called Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. The reason why I have chosen this photo is because it shows how many people who live in the U.S work full-time are receiving poverty- level wages and the author is just mentioning how can people survive under these conditions. The eighteenth photo I had taken is a book by the name of “who moved my cheese” by Spencer Johnson. The reason why I have picked this photo is because it has taught me changes…

The world we currently live in is based on an amalgamation of ideas, where some achieve exponential success whilst others fade into obscurity. Malcolm Gladwell, through his book “Tipping Point” addresses the magic moment when these ideas cross the threshold and spread like wildfire (Gladwell, Preface). Moreover, he asserts that there are a number of factors that are at play in virtually every influential trend, ranging from the rise and decline of Airwalk shoes to an alarming escalation in…

In the national bestseller novel, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell discusses how ideas and products become popular, thus reaching its “tipping point”. According to Gladwell, the tipping point is when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. One idea goes viral but not the others and Malcolm was determined to find out why. With years of research and experiments and analysis done, Gladwell concludes…

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 several theories and outlined key laws which contributes to his thesis that ideas, products, messages, trends and…

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point turned into a representation of the very procedures he was depicting. Upon its 2000 discharge, the book became a national smash hit whose impact would help to start outlook changes in fields going from advertising to general wellbeing. The primary premise of The Tipping Point is that little things can prompt enormous changes. Gladwell begins this book by investigating the idea of pandemics utilizing STD episodes and other therapeutic plagues to show how…

Little Things make big difference How do little things can make a big difference? There are three articles, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Disability by Nancy Mairs and The Way We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson and they prove that little things can make a big different. Those articles have different story to told, but all of them has situation that they change into a bigger problem. In the story Tipping Point, Gladwell talk about a man name David Gunn, who is a new subway director. He want…

I completely 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…

1. Chapter One: The 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…

When Malcolm Gladwell was asked why he was so interested in social epidemics, he said that he thought of them as “a way of making sense of the world.” Social epidemics, otherwise known as popular culture trends, are usually thought to originate independently without correlation. Could there be a pattern behind these epidemics? Gladwell, a New York Times staff writer, answers this question in his 2000 book, The Tipping Point. In this book, Gladwell discusses several social epidemics, including…

when Bernie Goetz was asked for money on the subway by young men, who were later shot by him. According to Gladwell’s explanation of Goetz’s incident in the subway, he explains that “The Tipping Point in this epidemic, though isn’t a particular kind of person…It’s something physical like graffiti. The impetus to engage in a certain kind of behavior is not coming from a certain kind of person but from a feature of the environment” (152). Gladwell attributes the cause of the tipping point to the…