Words of Wisdom: Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian writer, author, and social commentator. Years ago, I read some of his New Yorker magazine articles and I am currently reading his book The Tipping Point. Here are some of his ideas:
- Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good
- What do we tell our children? ... Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation
- That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting
- I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous
- The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families
- If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments
- The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process
- There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis
- It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
- Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking
- We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for
- We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility
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Posted by DDFD at 7/26/2009 10:58 PM 
Categories: Self Improvement, Words of Wisdom, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Self Improvement Malcolm Gladwell Quotes Personal Philosophy
Categories: Self Improvement, Words of Wisdom, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Self Improvement Malcolm Gladwell Quotes Personal Philosophy
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