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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

From Malcolm Gladwell

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

From Malcolm Gladwell

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

From Malcolm Gladwell

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

From Malcolm Gladwell

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

From Malcolm Gladwell

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

From Malcolm Gladwell

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

From Malcolm Gladwell

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

From Malcolm Gladwell

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

From Malcolm Gladwell

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

From Malcolm Gladwell

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