Malcolm Gladwell celebrates his
birthday on September 3. Born in England in 1963, but raised in
Canada, Gladwell has been a longtime journalist for the New
Yorker. He even once was a writer for the conservative journal
The Spectator and lived in Indiana.
When Gladwell started at the New Yorker
he set out to "mine current academic research for insight,
theories, direction or inspiration." His first book The
Tipping Point, examines when and why major changes happen in
society. The "Tipping Point" is a term used in epidemiology
to explain when a virus reaches a critical mass and begins to spread
at a higher rate.
He has written three additional books
that can be found at CDPL -- Blink, Outliers, and What the
Dog Saw. In the Outliers
he proposes that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become
proficient and successful. One example he uses of this is the famous
rock group the Beatles. They honed their music skills with at least
10,000 hours of performance in small venues in Germany before hitting
the big time.
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