![]() | Malcolm GladwellEnglish-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker |
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
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.
We cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with: that's why we go on dates - to test our theories about who attracts us.