Frases de Malcolm Gladwell

“Un típico accidente comprende siete errores humanos consecutivos.”

“A continuación, Arreguín-Toft varió ligeramente la formulación de la pregunta. ¿Qué sucede en las guerras descompensadas cuando el bando más débil hace como David y renuncia a luchar del modo en que prefieren los más fuertes, y emplea tácticas poco convencionales o de guerrilla? La respuesta: en esos casos, el porcentaje de victorias del contendiente más débil asciende del 28,5 por ciento al 63,6 por ciento. Para”

“Harvard es sobre todo una corporación pretenciosa, que funciona con el incentivo del beneficio. Eso es lo que la hace rodar. Tiene una dotación de miles de millones de dólares. La gente que la dirige no necesariamente busca la verdad y el conocimiento. Quieren ser peces gordos; y cuando uno acepta un pago de esta gente, al final todo se reduce a contraponer lo que uno quiere hacer, porque siente que es lo correcto, frente a lo que te dicen que has de hacer para recibir el siguiente pago. Cuando estás allí, tienes que pasar por el aro; de eso se encargan ellos.”

“el intelecto y el logro están muy lejos de correlacionarse perfectamente».”

“lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más. La”

“La gente no se eleva de la nada. Sí debemos algo a la familia y al patrocinio. Tal vez parezca que una persona que está de pie ante un rey lo hizo hizo todo por sí misma. Pero, de hecho, es invariablemente un beneficiario de ventajas ocultas, ocasiones extraordinarias y herencias culturales que le permiten, trabajando duro, aprender y comprender algo del mundo que está fuera del alcance de los demás. también marca una diferencia dónde y cuándo nos criamos. La cultura a la que pertenecemos y la herencia de nuestros antepasados conforman el modelo de nuestros logros de manera que no podemos comenzar a imaginarnos.”

“Contamos historias del tipo hecho a sí mismo porque encontramos algo encantador en la idea de una heroica lucha solitaria contra probabilidades abrumadoras.”

“lo que se aprende por necesidad está mucho más cargado de significado que lo que se aprende fácilmente.”

“Para tener un CI alto, uno tiende a especializarse, a tener pensamientos profundos. A evitar toda banalidad.”

“«El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable insiste en que el mundo se adapte a él. Por este motivo, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable».”

“«con trabajo duro, planificación sabia e independencia o cooperación con un pequeño grupo, la recompensa es sólo cuestión de tiempo».”

“Uno de los principales motivos por los que un catedrático acepta un sueldo inferior al que podría cobrar en la empresa privada es que la vida universitaria le da la libertad de hacer lo que quiera hacer, lo que considere correcto.”

“La práctica no es lo que uno hace cuando es bueno. Es lo que uno hace para volverse bueno.”

“La herencia cultural importa; y una vez que hemos visto el sorprendente efecto de cosas tales como la distancia al poder o el hecho de poder expresarse en un cuarto de segundo en lugar de invertir un tercio o una mitad, no es difícil preguntarse qué otras herencias culturales tendrán un impacto sobre nuestras tareas intelectuales del siglo XXI.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

“… If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”

“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

“….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

“Emotion is contagious.”

“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”

“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

“If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior… you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.”

“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”

“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”

“When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”

“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions… by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”

“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”