785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

On average the people watching the videos correctly identified the lairs 56% of the time.Other sociologist have tried similar versions of the same experiment, the average for all of them? 54%.Just about everyone is terrible, police officers, judges, therapists even CIA officers running big spy networks.Everyone. Why?Tim Levine answer is called Truth-default theory.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

A volte pensiamo che la bravura in matematica dipenda da un'attitudine innata, che si ha o non si ha. [...] La matematica si impara se si è disposti a fare dei tentativi.

It is embarrassing how feeble I feel, how timidly I move through life, always guarded, ready to defend myself, ready to be angry.

Do we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma. And the answer is that we plainly do. There are times and places however when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences. ... [Dr. Freireich] understood from his own childhood experiences that it is possible to emerge from even the darkest hell healed and restored.

There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something.

For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences.