Download Ebook David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell
David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell. In what instance do you like reviewing so considerably? Just what concerning the type of guide David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell The needs to check out? Well, everyone has their own reason should review some publications David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell Mostly, it will certainly associate with their necessity to get understanding from guide David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell as well as want to check out simply to obtain entertainment. Books, story e-book, as well as other amusing books come to be so prominent now. Besides, the clinical books will likewise be the finest reason to choose, specifically for the pupils, teachers, medical professionals, business person, as well as various other professions which love reading.
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell
Download Ebook David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell
This is it the book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell to be best seller lately. We offer you the most effective deal by obtaining the stunning book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell in this site. This David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell will certainly not only be the kind of book that is challenging to locate. In this website, all types of publications are given. You can search title by title, author by author, as well as publisher by publisher to learn the very best book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell that you can read currently.
This book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell deals you far better of life that can produce the high quality of the life brighter. This David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell is exactly what the people currently require. You are below as well as you could be exact and sure to obtain this book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell Never doubt to get it also this is just a book. You can get this book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell as one of your collections. Yet, not the compilation to display in your bookshelves. This is a priceless book to be checking out collection.
Exactly how is making sure that this David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell will not displayed in your bookshelves? This is a soft data book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell, so you could download David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell by buying to obtain the soft file. It will relieve you to read it whenever you require. When you really feel careless to move the printed book from home to workplace to some place, this soft data will ease you not to do that. Due to the fact that you can only save the data in your computer unit and gizmo. So, it allows you review it all over you have desire to check out David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell
Well, when else will you locate this possibility to get this book David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell soft documents? This is your good opportunity to be below as well as get this terrific publication David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell Never ever leave this publication before downloading this soft data of David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell in web link that we supply. David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants, By Malcolm Gladwell will actually make a lot to be your buddy in your lonely. It will certainly be the best companion to enhance your operation and also pastime.
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.
Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.
Or should he have?
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
- Sales Rank: #190481 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Little, Brown n Company
- Published on: 2013-10-01
- Released on: 2013-10-01
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 6
- Dimensions: 5.75" h x 1.00" w x 5.25" l, .35 pounds
- Running time: 420 minutes
- Binding: Audio CD
- 6 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Gladwell’s best-sellers, such as The Tipping Point (2000) and Outliers (2008), have changed the way we think about sociological changes and the factors that contribute to high levels of success. Here he examines and challenges our concepts of “advantage” and “disadvantage” in a way that may seem intuitive to some and surprising to others. Beginning with the classic tale of David and Goliath and moving through history with figures such as Lawrence of Arabia and Martin Luther King Jr., Gladwell shows how, time and again, players labeled “underdog” use that status to their advantage and prevail through the elements of cunning and surprise. He also shows how certain academic “advantages,” such as getting into an Ivy League school, have downsides, in that being a “big fish in a small pond” at a less prestigious school can lead to greater confidence and a better chance of success in later life. Gladwell even promotes the idea of a “desirable difficulty,” such as dyslexia, a learning disability that causes much frustration for reading students but, at the same time, may force them to develop better listening and creative problem-solving skills. As usual, Gladwell presents his research in a fresh and easy-to-understand context, and he may have coined the catchphrase of the decade, “Use what you got.” --David Siegfried
Review
Praise for Outliers:
"In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today...Outliers is a pleasure to read and leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward."―David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review
"The explosively entertaining Outliers might be Gladwell's best and most useful work yet...There are both brilliant yarns and life lessons here: Outliers is riveting science, self-help, and entertainment, all in one book."―Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
"No other book I read this year combines such a distinctive prose style with truly thought-provoking content. Gladwell writes with a high degree of dazzle but at the same time remains as clear and direct as even Strunk or White could hope for."―Atlanta Journal Constitution
"[An] important new book...Gladwell intelligently captures a larger tendency of thought-the growing appreciation of the power of cultural patterns, social contagions, memes...Gladwell's social determinism is a useful corrective to the Homo economicus view of human nature."―David Brooks, New York Times
"Thought-provoking, entertaining, and irresistibly debatable...[Outliers] is another winner from this agile social observer."―Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor
"Outliers is required reading for boardroom and watercooler crowds alike."―Men's Health
"In Outliers, Gladwell (The Tipping Point) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneered-the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena."―Publishers Weekly
Praise for The Tipping Point
"A fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way."―Fortune
"Gladwell's theories could be used to run businesses more effectively, to turn products into runaway bestsellers, and perhaps most important, to alter human behavior."―New York Times
Praise for Blink
"A real pleasure...Brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves."―Salon.com
"Intoxicating".Gladwell is an engaging writer and a first-rate tour guide.?―Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times
"BLINK moves quickly through a series of delightful stories?.Always dazzling us with fascinating information and phenomena."―David Brooks, New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He now lives in New York.
Most helpful customer reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
The Fruits of Overcoming Adversity in Childhood
By Mr. Shower Handle
Let me preface my review by saying that Malcolm Gladwell is one heck of a story teller. All of his books seem to follow a similar mold. There is one central message retold countless of times with different real world examples. In this book, that message happens to be that people who face, by what most peoples' accounts would be considered a significant disadvantages in life, can develop unique strengths that latter offers them an advantage in life.
The book is broken down into three parts. The first part explores the concept of disadvantages that latter manifest themselves as hidden strengths. The author explores how a girls middle school basketball team was able to win the Little League basketball championship despite having a team of first time basketball players coached by an Indian immigrant who was unfamiliar with the game. There is also a fascinating part dedicated to showing how second rate scholars at first rate universities are at a disadvantage when compared to first rate scholars at second rate universities.
The second part focus more so on particular people and on their "desirable difficulties." You learn about a dyslexic who uses his disorder as a point of strength in his profession as a trial lawyer and of another who does the same in Hollywood. Gladwell then describes the life of Jay Freireich, a pioneer in the treatment of cancer and use of chemotherapy, as an example of someone who persisted through traumatic events in his childhood to accomplish something great in his life. The fundamental message being here that people who overcome these "desirable difficulties" develop inner strength that helps them to persist onward through the future challenges that life will throw there way.
The third part discusses the limits of power. It was my favorite. Gladwell discusses the limits of power that large institutions have on minority groups. You see through the eyes of characters from both sides of the spectrum. Those that are being oppressed by the higher power and those that are committing the act of oppression. Gladwell's narrative does a good job of clearly demonstrating that the reality that people experience in life cannot be changed by brute, domineering force. A better way would be to understand where this group is coming from and working within their framework of understanding to guide them into making the right decisions in life. A great example is made by the author through demonstrating the catastrophic mistake made by Leon Goure and ultimately Lyndon B Johnson in choosing to bomb Vietnam.
My main problem with the book is how Gladwell often times frames his stories in order to be consistent with his narrative. He does provide some disclaimer that a lot of the examples he used of people with "desirable difficulties" were people who were fortunate to overcome their unfortunate standing in life but I think he fails to resoundingly capture the fact that an overwhelming majority of people with disorders or traumatic events in their childhood are polarized by the experience and have difficulty recovering and leading what many of us would consider "normal" lives.
Another problem with this book is that Gladwell commits some blatant factual errors in telling him stories. For example, in one part he compared post-WWII Poland to modern day North Korea. As someone who was raised by two parents who grew up in this country and witnessed it first hand I can tell you that this far from the truth. My father, an Econ major, routinely argued with his Communist professors over the merits of Capitalism and guess what...he was not shipped to a labor camp and was actually allowed to graduate (although with probably weaker marks than if he had kept his mouth shut). Sure, the country was poor, oppressed by the Soviet ruling power, and offered its citizens little hope for the future, but by no means was it modern day North Korea. So when Gladwell discusses Ingvar Kamprad's radical value proposition by producing furniture in Poland it is more so akin to US conglomerates choosing to manufacture their sneakers in China in the 1980s. And if Gladwell made this sort of hyperbole when discussing this particular story, how am I supposed to buy into the things that he says on topics I am less knowledgeable about?
Overall, this is typical Gladwell. It is a fun book to read with some entertaining stories in it and one central idea that binds it all together, but revolutionary it is not.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Paradigm Shift
By Gregory Brian Chewning Jr.
There is a particular movement throughout the chapters of this book which take you on a journey through the process of advantages versus disadvantages, split into three segments: Identifying vantage points, identifying advantages in apparent disadvantages, and the exchanges of power (as they relate to advantages and disadvantages). All advantages may seem to have disadvantages, but there’s more that meets the eye. Just as World War Z highlighted mother-nature’s greatest strength as its greatest weakness, our seemingly disadvantageous circumstances have more advantages than imagined. This idea is postured in the story of David and Goliath in the Old Testament, where David is a small and feeble character who stands up against the mighty giant warmonger, Goliath. The story ends in a twist where David defeats the giant when everyone expects the giant to win. Gladwell uses this story as an invitation to a paradigm shift - that we might see disadvantages in a new light.
Gladwell does a great job capturing plenty of true stories of people with disadvantages, or in disadvantageous situations. The first three chapters focus on redefining our situations, followed by the next three which are cause-and-effect relationships (how our disadvantages shape our lives for advantages), followed by more chapters of redefining disadvantages through questioning what real power looks like. Gladwell does a good job of interweaving these stories with data such as charts and graphs, as well as historical data to defend his main idea. Although Gladwell makes great points, you might find his story-telling to become redundant. You begin to understand where the stories are going and get used to Gladwell’s style early on in the reading. This is to be expected since Gladwell is a well-known journalist; for he collects his thoughts thoroughly and uses a set format to write his stories. Only once did I find myself questioning Gladwell’s sources, and that was on his information about Goliath’s health. He only quotes one source and uses that source heavily to prove the point that Goliath had an illness in his brain that made him big and made his movements slow. Other than that, I appreciated his use of sources.
Overall, this book is well worth reading as it can change your thinking for the better. Advantages have disadvantages, but disadvantages present the opportunity to discover new-found advantages. This is a positive message to put any underdog on top in all kinds of negative circumstances. Everyone faces giants in life. Like Goliath, those giants call us out to battle with them on their terms, but we don’t have to meet those giants on their terms. Normally when we do, we lose. Rather, we can find strengths in the greatest of weaknesses, and opportunities in all kinds of situations that turn disadvantages upside-down.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
David And Goliath
By Professor H
The style is very engaging and causes one to consider how we view our "advantages" and "disadvantages" in our lives. When we believe we may be superior in strength, etc. how this might actually be a disadvantage to bring about change. I enjoyed his insights via the lives of others, so we might be able to apply some actions into our lives or at the least explore situations with a different perspective.
It was inspiring to read the testimonies of those who overcame adversity and disadvantages. These include:
Vivek Ranadive, a basketball coach
Teresa DeBrito, school principal
David Boies, suffers from being dyslexic
Emil Freirech, top cancer physician
Wyatt Walker, civil rights activist
Rosmary Lawlor, Northern Ireland seamstress
Wilma Derksen, one of her family members was murdered
Andre Troocme, helped persecuted Jews during WW II
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell PDF
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell EPub
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell Doc
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell iBooks
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell rtf
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell Mobipocket
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar