Malcolm Gladwell

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Malcolm Gladwell

At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

Malcolm Gladwell

Change your mind about something significant every day.

Malcolm Gladwell

Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context. The reason that most of us seem to have a consistent character is that most of us are really good at controlling our environment.

Malcolm Gladwell

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that’s nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.

Malcolm Gladwell

Criticism is a privilege that you earn – it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction.

Malcolm Gladwell

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.

Malcolm Gladwell

Emotion is contagious.

Malcolm Gladwell

Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.

Malcolm Gladwell