Malcolm Gladwell's David And Goliath

Starting in Chapter 6 Gladwell presents us with the mysterious and seemingly inexplicable series of events that occurred in Harlan, Kentucky in the 19th century to introduce the enormous effect of cultural legacies.

You never really forget underdog stories. I still remember when the New York Giants went into super bowl XLII as under dogs to the 16-0 New England Patriots. The New York Giants where 12 point under dogs but, they came out victorious because they had more fight and determination to win. That win was one of the biggest upsets in sports history. The same can be said about Redwood City’s team. They knew they weren’t the best team out there but they knew they the will and attitude to win. The Redwood City team did what no other team did and that was playing defense before the ball was put into play. They defend the whole court unlike most teams that only defend half the court. Lawrence of Arabia was another example of going the extra mile. He went

In Big and Bad by Malcolm Gladwell, he states that S.U.V.s are not safe, although they may seem like they are. Specifically, he states that S.U.V.s are the opposite of safe. In the text, Gladwell discusses how people generally think, “If I am bigger and taller, I’m safer.” In other words, many people feel that if they are driving a bigger, heavier vehicle, they will be protected from harm. The article argues that the massive weight of the S.U.V. negatively influences the handling of the vehicle, leading to how fast you can navigate and control the S.U.V. The article counters the false sense of security by claiming that there is a higher chance of your S.U.V. rolling because of how big and cumbersome it is.

His first game playing basketball he was nervous; his hands were sweating and his legs were shaking, almost as if he couldn't stand up at all. His teammates were trying to encourage him to not be so nervous and to just try to have fun.

The 10,000 hour rule in Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” states that ”...ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” I disagree with this statement, but if I were to change it so that it was more agreeable, I would change it so that it would say, “...to most people, ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the possibility of becoming a world class-expert-- in anything.” Evidence of astronauts who became experts under 10,000 hours, comedians’ god given natural humor, and evidence of exceptional soccer players and volleyball players’ heights all show why Malcolm Gladwell’s “ten thousand hours” isn’t completely true.

In the book entitled “David and Goliath”, Malcolm Gladwell, the author, wrote a very inspiring story, but before be inspired by the author story I encountered many difficulties to understand the story. The main difficulty is to understand something that I do not have the knowledge like basketball game and wars. I am not a basketball player or fan. So, I do not really know how does the game works and what is the game rules. Thus, to understand the story written by the author become more difficult as the reader need to be more conscious and focus in reading to understand the flow of the story. Besides that, reader also must able to imagine the event written by the author to get a clear picture of the author story. This because reader need to

In Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, “The power of thinking without thinking” is the central idea that Gladwell conveys through his many anecdotes alongside his scientific evidence. In Blink, though scientific evidence comes into play a lot, most of his evidence can be found daily if we examine ourselves. When the psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson did the “priming” experiment with black college students and the twenty questions taken from the Graduate Record Examination, a test for entry in graduate school, upon making them identify their race just “that simple action was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement- and the number of items they got right was cut in half. (Page 56, Chapter 2. ) This can bring us to the notion that if you can be “primed” to be inferior, you can be “primed” to be superior. As Gladwell put it, “If a white student from a prestigious private

As human beings, we are constructed with human emotions and mental capacity such as the unconscious and conscious state of being that facilitate our actions and decision, but can we control our mind or is it an inevitable action and thought? In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, he elaborates that it’s possible to discipline and restraint our unconscious and conscious. This book helps illustrate the complexity and serene our human minds and self-judgement that we conspire within the first seconds of any situation as we go through in our lives separately but use similar mental strategies without thinking about them.

Can we know something without knowing how we know it? This is precisely the question that Malcolm Gladwell sets out to ponder in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Looking at scientific experiments from laboratories nation-wide, Gladwell explores the fascinating phenomenon of “thin-slicing”, or making snap-judgments without consciously engaging in the decision making process. These “thin-slices”, Gladwell asserts, are surprisingly accurate—sometimes even more so than the decisions we make after long hours of careful consideration and reflection. One particularly interesting question raised by this study is the implications it brings to bear on the process of thought.

Is cultural legacy to blame for the death of 228 passengers on board the 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 as explored by Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell? I agree with Gladwell that cultural legacies are powerful and persistent, as seen in Korean Air’s tarnished history. Although some cultural legacies are more impactful than others in terms of a person’s probability of success, at least a portion of someone’s many cultural legacies most likely have a great impact on their achievements. Therefore, a person’s cultural legacy should always, to some degree, be factored into a person’s chance of success.

In The Art of Failure, Gladwell analyzes the two different ways someone can underperform when faced with high stress levels. The two forms are choking and panicking, both of which are huge detriments to high-stake tasks. Malcolm writes that in order to overcome these challenges, one must first understand which form they are dealing with. Panicking and choking as defined by Gladwell can be characterized by the root of the obstacle, the resulting inability, and the form of compensation with which a person will be inclined to react.

In the movie, Coach Carter challenge the team academically. Student-athletes should prioritize their studies first. There is a part of the film that the school principal confronted Carter; she believes that the students will not be going to finish the studies and that only basketball will give them some success. Coach Carter believes that if the team failed to their studies, they are all failed.

In this article "Troublemakers", Gladwell focuses how social order frequently has a tendency will worsen overgeneralizations something like an issue that need influence their society, frequently likewise safety precautions to guarantee such pit bulls attack issues don’t happen. The particular issue that Gladwell focuses this bit of composing is the approval that might have been passed against pit bulls. This approval specified that pit bulls to be banned starting with the region of Ontario. This approval law went with claiming pit bulls assaulted a kid and his family, abandoning a large number of the individuals included in the hospitalized. “Troublemakers”, Gladwell examines what Pit bulls stereotypes educate in us around the wrongness for racial profiling from claiming both people and the pooches. Gladwell utilization this sample for overgeneralization also applies the enactment passed against pit bulls, pointing a crazy issue for overgeneralizing around the breeds from claiming puppies furthermore as a rule. Gladwell contends that settling on an overgeneralization of a dog’s breed also labeling them similarly as “dangerous” or a “monster” is not a reasonable representation. Gladwell recommends that not all pit bulls will kill mankind. There needs aid number issues from focusing on particular breeds as ‘dangerous’ instead, for example, targeting puppies exited from chains from backyards likewise continuously less averse to make hostility towards well-loved family unit

The film wasn’t about that 13-0 record and winning a state championship, but the struggle that came with it and all the hardships they had to deal and get past. Racism, prejudice, compassion and love were all key aspects of this film as shown. The racism, prejudice of the team when they first met was severe and had been changed. The love and compassion came as the team grew to become one unit and love each other and be able to become something more powerful than they could be by themselves.

First, Carter taught his players the importance of education he believed education was everything and students could do nothing without it. The basketball team at one part of the season was 16-0, and it came to coach's attention that some of his players were failing and when they could not bring their grades up he forfeited two games on the season, one of them was the most important game of the year. The players were really mad at first, but Carter talked to the players and told them if they just focused on the game of basketball and not there education half of them will end up in jail or dead. In the end, they started working harder and finally brought their grades up so they were able to play the rest of the season.