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 Gladwell, The Tipping Point Talking to Strangersħ. 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 isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. “As human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping PointĦ. We only need to find the sticky Tipping Points.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Pointĥ. “We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. With the slightest push-in just the right place-it can be tipped.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping PointĤ. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. “A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Pointģ. “Emotion is contagious.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping PointĢ. Here, we’ve compiled some of Gladwell’s most poignant and thought-provoking quotes from his most acclaimed and popular audiobooks. As an internationally respected thought leader, Gladwell definitely has something to say, and we think his thoughts are worth listening to. He has penned five New York Times best-selling books and has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list. He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging.Malcolm Gladwell is a renowned journalist, best-selling author, and public speaker. Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and warm and funny. He was previously a reporter for The Washington Post. He has won a national magazine award and been honored by the American Psychological Society and the American Sociological Society. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. In the weekly podcast, Malcolm re-examines an overlooked or misunderstood aspect of past events. Malcolm is the host of the popular podcast, Revisionist History, now comprising seven seasons. With his latest book, David and Goliath, he examines our understanding of the advantages of disadvantages, arguing that we have underestimated the value of adversity and over-estimated the value of privilege. He has explored how ideas spread in the Tipping Point, decision making in Blink, and the roots of success in Outliers. Brimming with music and conversation, Miracle and Wonder is a window into Simon’s legendary career, what it means to be alive as an artist, and how to create work that endures. The result is an intimate audio biography of one of America’s most popular songwriters. Published by Pushkin Industries, Malcolm and co-author, Bruce Headlam, recorded over 30 hours of conversation with Simon. Gladwell’s newest book is actually an audiobook titled Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. In it, Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. His book, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, was inspired by the four-part series about General Curtis LeMay on his podcast "Revisionist History". He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six New York Times bestsellers - The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers.
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