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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963 to a Jamaican mother and an English father. When he was 6, his family moved from England to Canada. He was a successful runner in high school, and his childhood was largely intellectually stimulating: his father was a mathematician, his mother was a psychotherapist and author, and Gladwell developed an interest in the world of literature at a young age. He earned an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1984.

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Malcolm Gladwell Essays

12th Grade

What the Dog Saw

In the book What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell talks about Ron Popeil, the “Set it, and forget it” man in the segment “The Pitchman: Ron Popeil and the Conquest of the American Kitchen”. In this segment, Gladwell writes mainly...

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Blink

Piercing screams, angry chants, and heartfelt tears: that is the climate of change. Compare this to the placid clicking of keyboards, the casual transmission of emoticons; it is evident which situation will go down in history. This is Malcolm...

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Outliers

In today’s day and age, it is said that a persons’ economic background, perseverance and innate talents determine how successful they will be in life. It is believed that the “American Dream” can only be achieved by those privileged few who were...

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Blink

Piercing screams, angry chants, and heartfelt tears: that is the climate of change. Compare this to the placid clicking of keyboards, the casual transmission of emoticons; it is evident which situation will go down in history. This is Malcolm...