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• Sports: What Makes the Great Ones Great?

  
  Dr. Jim Taylor's blog — Authority: 115
  So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you don’t? This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malclom Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Coyle’s The ...
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• Sports: What Makes the Great Ones Great?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you dont? This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malclom Gladwells Outliers and Daniel Coyles The Talent Code. ...
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• What to think about our first scripts?

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 534
  In his latest book "Outliers," author Malcolm Gladwell lays out something he calls The 10,000 Hour Rule : The search for success has spawned a motivational industry worth millions of pounds and libraries full of self-improvement books. It is practice, however, that makes perfect, according to the sociologist ...
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• My Favorite Books: Member’s Pick for Week 11/30/09

  
  Matador Goods — Authority: 472
  In a series here on Goods, we will be spotlighting various Matador community members and providing links to their favorite books. Matador Member – thefuturexpat Photos by thefuturexpat I travel because I feel wanderlust deep in my soul. The first time I left the country was for a school exchange in 5th ...
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• Hyper-Analytical “Insanity” Cripples Drug R&D, Says Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 674
  Biotech , people , management Luke Timmerman wrote: There’s one thing drug makers love to use to figure out which drugs to invest in: spreadsheets. Not Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, though. Estimates of future cash flows and other financial analysis tools are one of the big reasons why drugmakers spend so ...
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• A Gladwell beat down...

  
  You heard me! — Authority: 128
  If youve read The Tipping Point , Blink , or Outliers then no doubt Malcolm Gladwell is preferred non-fiction reading for you. I know I have learned quite a bit from TTP , Blink and a number of his New Yorker pieces. I also get into MIT Professor of Language and the Brain, Steven Pinker and his ...
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• Echo Chamber of Secrets: 30 Media Muggles and their Harry Potter Counterparts

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  It’s no secret that grown-ups love the Harry Potter series almost as much as kids – maybe even more, based on certain grown-up references that the average 12-year-old can’t quite yet appreciate. More to the point, by this time a whole bunch of Harry Potter fans who were once kids, back when the book came out, ...
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• More On Pinker & Gladwell

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 145
  Lloyd explains why Pinker and Gladwell don’t agree , which is partly based upon Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw ., a collection of essays that were published in the New Yorker. Posted in asides, entertainment, politics-social-racism Tagged: asides, books, malcolm gladwell, Neal Stephenson, New Yorker, ...
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• Why Pinker and Gladwell Disagree

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 469
  If you didn’t already know, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, What the Dog Saw , is a collection of his best essays as published in The New Yorker ( all of which are available on his site for free , if you prefer to read them there). Since its publication, journalists and scientists have ...
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• Igon Value: Pinker on Gladwell’s What The Dog Saw

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 145
  I’m kind of surprised at the ignorance of some writers, especially when it comes to mathematical terms, such as Igon Value . For those of you who don’t know, it’s not igon value, but eigenvalue. Here’s what eigenvalues are all about. The name come from the German word eigen , which means “self”. ...
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• Power Grid: Meghan McCain And Andrew Sullivan Ride The Going Rogue Wave

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  If you’ve been following the news media over the past two weeks, then you know the big stories inside and out: an Alaskan woman wrote a book and some elected officials are working on making new laws. Or so we’ve heard. You’ve seen endless consideration given to Sarah Palin ’s Going Rogue and heard debates ...
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• Interview with Keith Stanovich

  
  Solution Focused Change? Doing What Works — Authority: 415
  By Coert VisserDr. Keith Stanovich, Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology of the University of Toronto, is a leading expert on the psychology of reading and on rationality. His latest book, What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, shows that IQ tests are very incomplete ...
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• Saturday Night Mind Dump…

  
  My World — Authority: 133
  Great night tonight Really weird not having Paul there, but Austin did a great job I don’t know if Revolution would be where it is today without the help that Austin gave us at the very beginning and in helping us find Paul If you are interested in participating in Revolution’s fast this week or fasting in ...
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• Pinker, Blinkin’, and (Shaggy) Dog

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 488
  Clash of the Bushy-Headed, Best-Selling Metaphorical Eponyms, as Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker ( The Lan guage Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought ) assays tress-same-made* trendspotting journo Malcolm Gladwell ’s ( The Tipping ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell Responds to Steven Pinker

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 611
  An exchange of letters between Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker on the subject of Pinkers recent review of Malcolm Gladwells "What the Dog Saw."
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• Malcolm Galdwell on Cobert Report

  
  MissTheda.com — Authority: 150
  Malcolm Gladwell is such a loveable bookworm. He describes his books as “adventures, excursions into the world of ideas.”
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• If youre so smart, why arent you rich?

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 488
  Does being smart help you become rich? Folksy Warren Buffett once said that an investor with IQ of 150 should sell 30 points to someone else, as anything above 120 is unnecessary. Consider the following simple model (we can call it the "Igon Model" in honor of Malcolm Gladwell ): Igon Model : IQ correlates ...
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• "Vino con su pinche achichincle" [ALTA Conference]

  
  Three Percent - Article — Authority: 518
  As if it isn’t obvious from my earlier posts about ALTA , I’m a huge fan of the conference, the people, the panels. (To riff on the nature of the panels for a second: these are almost anti- MLA type events. It’s an unwritten—or maybe even written—rule that you don’t read a paper on an ALTA panel. ...
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• 2 GenX thinkers have new books out

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out. Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their ...
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• Sarah Palin Finally Figured Out, by Malcolm Gladwell

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “IF YOU BLINK , YOU MIGHT MISS WHAT THE DOG SAW : THAT SARAH PALIN IS NOT REALLY AN OUTLIER IN THE GOP, BUT ACTUALLY JUST TYPICAL OF A PARTY THAT THREATENS TO BE THE TIPPING POINT IN SETTING US BACK NOT 10,000 HOURS … BUT 10,000 YEARS !” ...
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