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Good Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If…
- Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
- If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an…
- Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
- We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so…
- Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
- The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
- Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
- Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…
- Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry?…
- ...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal…
- understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
- If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing…
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