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Total fraud
This guy contradicts himself regarding conducting research multiple times…
a burger cooked with beef tallow is delicious…so I believe the fries thing….
That's why the Beatles used very specific words. Lovely Rita, meter maid….
I love Malcolm Galdwell. He made a few mistakes writing about Anders Ericsson's investigation and paper about 10,000 Hours. But I followed it (Starting as soon as Outliers was published.) I also read Ericsson's paper, which is online and easy to follow. I think Gladwell makes mistakes here. 10,000 hours won't make you an 'expert,' it will make you world class . The music school example was 2000 hours of practice (I don't remember the exact numbers) and you can teach music to kids, 6000 hours you can get a job in an orchestra, but 10,000 hours of deliberate focused practices can make you a soloist.
But this is what I love about Malcolm Gladwell, he doesn't have to be right he just has to be engaging and exciting and interesting and fun and make ideas start popping in our heads.
In the community of Echo Park we started painting out gang graffiti in the late 1980s. The gang kids painted even more. They were kicking out butts. No matter what we did they were winning. (Winning wasn't just unsightly, it led to shootings between the gangs.) Then one day our Senior Lead Officer Joe Writer told us, "The armed robbery rate went to zero last month!" That's great, who got arrested? "That's the thing. No one. Talking with my Captain (Keith Bushy) we think it might be those beige squares you guys are painting."
None of us know about Broken Windows. But we kept it up. We also tried anything we could think of, planting trees, sponsoring trash cans…. Things kept getting better. At one point the older gang guys were working with us. Then Joe sent us to a police training at USC. The cops in the room all grumbled, 'Why are there civilians here?" We didn't know. Joe sent us. Then the instructor started talking about Broken Windows. We all thought, Hey, wait a minute. We invented this? I was going to write a book. Apparently we weren't the only ones to figure this out. Joe laughed. He just wanted our minds to be blown as his was at that training.
Here's where the problem in this lies. In New York City they started giving all the credit to Mayor Guiliani for 'cracking down on crime.' In the L.A. Times the third or fourth Northeasst Captain after Bushy said, "When the yuppies moved in, they started fixing up the …." No! that wasn't what happened! So if you don't understand, don't want to understand, how can you learn and repeat a process? Human nature doesn't change… but when it does, when people can stop applying their prejudices, that's when progress is made.
Here's a ghost story. My wife and I got lost in the San Gabriel Mountains, had to spend the night and walk out in the morning. On the way to getting lost I met a very old man with piercing blue eyes who just started talking about being lost in a nearby canyon on a moonless night. (I knew that night would also be moonless.) Well that happened to us. we spent the night up there. When I went back to retrieve my bicycle I told the ranger. what had happened. He said, "That sounds like old Jimmy, but he died a few years ago. I wonder who it was." I said, "Stop right there. It's now a ghost story." I'm sure I could eventually find out who that was….but why bother? It's more fun as a ghost story.
"Why do smart people do dumb things cause they don't want you to look stupid", that says a lot😢😢😢
The Wilt Chamberlain thing isn't so cut and dry, there's more to it. That underhand shot is considered a circus shot, its like the weird baseball and football plays that guys wouldn't even allow in a pick-up game in their backyard. There is a level of respect that comes with the game, "We're all shooting it the same way" kind of thing…
This guy is such a dogshit researcher he doesn't realize almost every single book is online in both text and audiobook format. His 10,000 hour rule is based on a bogus study, "trusting your gut" instead of using data is idiotic and everything this man has ever written has been based on bad science or pseudoscience.
42 tabs? That's beginner level. I have at minimum 50 at all times.
I have over 21 thousand tabs open and I am suffering.
Hey this is that guy who was embarrassed by Douglas Murray 😂😂😂
This is the single most pompous, entitled, presumptuous person I have ever heard speak ever. About anything. Well done wired 👎
Malcolm, you’re guilty of half of the things you claim other biased researchers do
Atp on what topic does Gladwell NOT have a podcast episode on?
No, the taste of the McDonald's fries depends on who's cooking them. If you get them freshly made, they are way better regardless of the oil.
As a Sociology major dropout, I am fascinated by this man
How can I find MG’s email address?
Malcolm left out one important reason why wealthy people play golf. It's a great source of networking for people in your socioeconomic class, or for trying to climb higher than your current socioeconomic class. I think the term is "hobnobbing."
ignoring that participants in the Prison Experiment have said they were pushedprompted to act in a certain way…. that would be the faked part
I'm 15 seconds in and already I feel attacked lol
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