The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.


Outliers: The Story of Success (ed. Little, Brown, 2008) - ISBN: 9780316040341

Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon...

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon...

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon...

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon...