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 20 th 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 The New 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。
1953年12月,在休•赫夫纳创办的《花花公子》创刊号上有这样一段宣言:“国家事务不在我们关心的范围之内。我们不希望去解决什么世界性的问题,或去证明什么伟大的道德真理。要是能向美国的男性提供一些额外的欢笑、分散一下对原子时代的焦虑的注意力,我们觉得我们就证明了...
评分本人读了《小狗看世界》中塔勒布和尼德霍夫的部分,为这样的好书竞被翻译所害,感到十分可惜。 译者的文笔是流畅的,这一点不可否认。但其翻译却是错漏百出,漏译部分(是其看不懂原文?)倒也算了,眼不见心为静吧。但其遍地开花式的错译却令人烦恼。要不是有幸看到原著,几为...
评分四年后,也即是2007年,Gladwell就安然事件撰写的第二篇文章“The open secrect”(《公开的秘密》)发表。在转述此篇旧文之前,且耍个花枪,来看看新闻——美国SEC诉高盛案(SEC在一项民事诉讼中,起诉高盛公司误导、欺骗投资者)。 此间曲折,还数维基百科“高盛”词条说得...
评分一 我记得好像是休谟说,他那个时候的苏格兰农民一辈子所活动的地方不足十几英里,知道的事情也不过邻里家常。或许,这才是人类的常态,是百万年进化中人类最惬意、最适应的形态。生物进化是缓慢的。但是我们发展出了快速进化的文化。这就意味着,我们的生理上的硬件还是原始祖...
评分此书是作者跨度10多年的文章,每篇文章都是一个独立的故事,从一种视角进行切入,体现了作者的洞察力,如此的有意思。 引爆点 异类 我看了,但我对异类的评价很低,至少当时看来就应该是那样,但现在回想,是不是对作者的期望太高了呢?阅读异类的时候,也总希望看到 引爆...
so overrated!!
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评分extremely interested especially in comparison with the TV series MG relates himself to.
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评分艰难啃完,again印证了我的观点,读书一定要读经典…越畅销越不咋地…
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