being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
Malcolm GladwellI don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.
Malcolm Gladwell[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act โ and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment โ are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.
Malcolm GladwellMy father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.
Malcolm Gladwell