The best books by Malcolm Gladwell?

[TTT]

He writes well, many academics have problem communicating research to the public because they are trained to write for other academics. Outliers is the best one of his works that i have read. He also wrote a good article about the social logic of Ivy leagues were he exposes some of the history behind the idea of "well rounded applicants" recommendation letters and other means that WASP presidents of Ivy League schools used to keep groups they considered undesirable or detrimental to the image of their schools.

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[Jimi Swagger]

Outliers! My mentor gave this to me almost a decade ago and one of those books that you find yourself picking up every few years when watching the news. He was on the Breakfast Club recently. Only Jamaican I would like to be in close quarters with.

 

[OfTheCross]

I've only read Outliers and Tipping Point...they're both good

 

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I've only read Outliers and Tipping Point...they're both good

What's the gist those 2 of the books?

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[Soundbwoy]

Outliers! My mentor gave this to me almost a decade ago and one of those books that you find yourself picking up every few years when watching the news. He was on the Breakfast Club recently. Only Jamaican I would like to be in close quarters with.

I just picked up Outliers from this interview, great read so far

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They're all entertaining. I don't think "Blink" or "What The Dog Saw" are as good as the others, but they still have some good stories and good points.

"David and Goliath" might be my favorite, but "Outliers" was really good too.

"The Tipping Point" is right in the middle.


I actually remember meaningful shyt I learned in every one of those books, in some cases a lot. That's more than I can say for a lot of the non-fiction I read.

I read Outliers which is pretty cool. But I have a feeling all of his books are fairly similar anecdotal stories and then some hard stats to back up positions about statistical analysis, sociological occurrences, human psychology etc.

Got to agree with that. Some of the stuff he says is purposely contrarian - it's meant to get you to think, but take it with a grain of salt and don't assume it's the whole story.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Dude started writing about other people when he couldn't get into business school...