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Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy. [13] When Malcolm was 11, his father, a professor of mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo , [ 14 ] allowed his son to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries. [ 15 ]
Talking to Strangers studies miscommunication, interactions and assumptions people make when dealing with those that they don't know. To make his point, Gladwell covers a variety of events and issues, including the arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler; the sex abuse scandal of Larry Nassar; the Cuban mole Ana ...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." [1] The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life.
The author revisits his 2000 bestseller "The Tipping Point," to examine the flip side of that earlier book's lessons about studying social change. Among the topics he covers: Cheetah reproduction.
Malcolm Gladwell has been influencing so many kinds of people for four decades since his stint at The New Yorker began in 1996. The former will do things that aren’t instinctual and rather ...
The bestselling author chatted with PEOPLE about his current favorite books, shows and authors at the Texas Book Festival
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) is Malcolm Gladwell's second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information.
The author of the book is Malcolm Gladwell, an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. [1] [2] [3] In 2016, Gladwell started Revisionist History, a history-focused podcast that "re-examines something from the past – an event, a person, an idea, even a song – and asks whether we got it right the first time". [4]