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Gladwell is a story-teller, not a scientist. Taken as such, his books are well written and entertaining; but they are only starting points for discussion. Nevertheless, people change important things like their parenting based on these stories, so it is worth evaluating their content.
The problem with this book is the lack of the "critical experiments" that would help to distinguish cause from effect. Are successful survivors of horrible challenges successful because they were orphaned at an ear ...more
The problem with this book is the lack of the "critical experiments" that would help to distinguish cause from effect. Are successful survivors of horrible challenges successful because they were orphaned at an ear ...more
Fun to read, but his thesis is a little wobbly. I may write more after our book group discussion...
I have definitely listened to Gladwell's podcast too much or for too long, because there was a whole scene from this book that I was insisting to someone was from the podcast: I heard it in MG's voice, I could hear the incising interview, I swore up and down it was from "Revisionist History"...but then they recognized it as being from this book. So, I guess Malcolm Gladwell is in my head now.
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Nov 07, 2013
Sean Quinn
marked it as to-read
Nov 06, 2016
Toni
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