What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from TheNew Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head."What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.
【加】马尔科姆•格拉德威尔(Malcolm Gladwell)被《快公司》誉为“21世纪的彼得•德鲁克”,曾是《华盛顿邮报》商务科学专栏作家,目前是《纽约客》杂志专职作家。2005年被《时代》周刊评为全球最有影响力的100位人物之一。他的代表作品《引爆点》、《异类》、《眨眼之间》均创造了书市神话。《纽约时报》更是把格拉德威尔对社会思潮的影响称为“格拉德威尔效应”(Gladwell Effect)。
马尔科姆出生于英格兰,是牙买加人的后裔。他在加拿大长大,现居纽约市。
第八篇 Million-Dollar Murray 副题是:“为什么无家可归一类的问题解决容易、而管理起来难?” Gladwell在本文中说的一半纯属滥调。他把“八二原则”又举例说明了一通,不过他用的是统计学里的术语——(Power Law)“幂律”。题目中的“Murray”是个“死硬”的流浪汉,而叫...
评分企鹅将此豆列中的预读本放在了企鹅位于北京的根据地之一,诗意栖居: 鹅毛们若喜欢此豆列的预读本,可以通过下面两种途径获得: 1、到诗意栖居咖啡馆现场翻阅或借走。 http://www.douban.com/event/11180110/ 2、去藏书阁小组申请 ...
评分1. 暴富 英雄,就是那些做到了我们想去做却没有胆量做的人. 行动之前,请审视下,自己有没有承担最坏结果的能力和勇气. 2.真实的色彩 在世俗的眼光下, 做任何事都需要给出合理的理由. 幸好,"理由"就想"借口", 要想总归是有的. 3约翰洛克的错误 原来避孕药是个男人发明出来的. ...
评分 评分由于之前首次接触到纳西姆•塔勒布的书,于是我百度了一下塔勒布其人,一篇题为《暴富:纳西姆•塔勒布是怎样将不可避免的灾难转化为一种投资战略》的文章吸引了我。这篇文章写在《黑天鹅》一书出版的几年前,以1996年的某一天塔勒布拜访维克多•尼德霍夫开头。尼德霍夫...
有些文章需要很多的背景和文化知识,就跳着看了。
评分没太看懂,所以不知道主旨是什么
评分属于越来越好看的类型。前面几篇真的不是很有意思(虽然Gladwell本人认为什么都能写的有意思,但真的不是),但越到后面的越好看,甚至有点手不释卷。Gladwell的风格作为这种杂志稿可能更为适合,整个结构都更compact,内容也更吸引人,免除了书到后面后劲不足的问题。不错不错,继续学习。
评分散文集,提到的很多点都有被注意到,有点behavior economy擦边球的味道
评分有些文章需要很多的背景和文化知识,就跳着看了。
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