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Malcom Gladwell

Malcom Gladwell Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Malcom Gladwell

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Total quotes: 3

“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”

— Malcom Gladwell, Blink

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy

“The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimating the importance of situation and context.”

— Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“It was a lot easier to listen to the scientists and the lawyers because the scientists and the lawyers can provide pages and pages of documentation supporting their conclusions. I think that approach is a mistake, and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that – sometimes – we’re better off that way”

— Malcom Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Tagged: Decisions, Gut, Instincts

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