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Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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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.
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
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Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
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Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
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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 to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
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Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.
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Decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
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Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
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I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing.... It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.
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It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us.
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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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A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
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September 3, 1963
(age 55)
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.
Known for:
Outliers (2008)
The Tipping Point (2000)
What the Dog Saw (2009)
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