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Gladwell Gets Spiritual by Andrew Collins “The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” So opens Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. The quote comes from the biblical account of the story of David, who […]

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Gladwell, a Retrospective by Andrew Collins Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw feels like playing the first album of a favorite band. We love the group’s chart-topping hit albums, but there’s something special about revisiting its earliest music. It may be rough and disconnected in some places, but the sound is there — that […]

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In the end, Gladwell brings a call to both optimism and humility. He invites those who have already climbed the ladder of success to look back at all the rungs of cultural heritage and unique opportunities that allowed them to get there . . . To those just beginning to step out into life and make something of themselves, he obviously recommends hard work, but work tempered with an eye for opportunities.

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Editor’s Note: In more than two decades of journalism, at The Washington Post and then The New Yorker magazine, Malcolm Gladwell has fed his curiosity with innumerable questions and has swept his audience along on countless journeys of discovery. When the ideas just got too big for articles, he started writing books — three in […]

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Gladwell’s particular genius manifests by offering simple theories with incredibly complex practical applications. He argues that specific and precise causes undergird every social phenomenon that hits the Tipping Point, but rarely do they ever arise from the mass advertising campaigns or social programs that one might expect.

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Weaponized Curiosity by Andrew Collins When I queued up Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast last summer, I expected the show would be a hit. We’ve given his books the RedFence stamp of approval, and it seemed the versatile journalist-turned-pop-sociologist would have no trouble donning a few more hats as historian and podcaster. To no surprise, but […]

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