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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.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Swimming, Keys
"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Business, Years

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Hard Work, Passion
"Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, Book by Malcolm Gladwell.

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Who We Are, Outliers

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Motivational, Success, People

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Achievement, Preparation

Emotion is contagious.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Entrepreneur, Emotion

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Inspirational, Success, Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.77, Hachette UK

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Caring, Emotional

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Intuition, Blink
Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Problem, Storytelling
"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Communication, Writing

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Magic Moments, Ideas
"Women at the Tipping Point...Is Corporate America Ready?" by Jeffery Tobias Halter, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2017.

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Believe, Numbers
"A Glorious Waste Of Time" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Meaningful, Teacher

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Music, School
"Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Teenager, Spring

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.

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, People, Asking

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Blink, Loses
"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Success, Interesting, Would Be

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