psychology

Reading “Blink” made me more confident in trusting those instant first impressions. Gladwell put some logic and reason into what I could only describe as instinct.  Agree or disagree with him, Gladwell knows how to tell a compelling a story, and it is the stories that grasp his readers, or at the very least, me.  I read this book on a coast to coast airplane ride on a December a few years ago. In preparation for reading his latest book, “The Outliers“, which has been sitting on my book shelf from last Xmas wish list, I realized this book never made it into the book posts. So I finally took it off the shelf, dusted it off (it’s just an expression, there is no dust at my house!), and tried to remember what I consumed in the 254-pages. [Read more…] about Malcolm Gladwell: “Blink”

How do we reach the critical point in our endeavors where we can tip the scale of success to reach not just mediocre success but one of colossal size? How do some people reach success, wealth, fame of enormous proportions, while others just as likely, just as probable, barely tip that scale? What is the defining distinction between ideas and trends that take off while other similarly excellent ones are set aside, unnoticed? In Malcolm Gladwell‘s first major book, he defines The Tipping Point as that magical moment when ideas, trends and social behaviors cross a threshold and spreads like the flames of wildfire. He calls these ideas and social trends epidemics because they can spread like the flu! [Read more…] about Malcolm Gladwell: “The Tipping Point”