"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
"Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell

Don't know if any of you have read Malcolm Gladwell.  His two books, Tipping Point and Blink were very enjoyable and insightful.  His new book, Outliers is also very interesting. Here's a link to an article related to the subject matter. Football fans will find the article very interesting.
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Unknown said...

Great article, you are the third person to recommend it and just finally plowed through it.Also just received the Tipping Point for X-mas. You should check out Freakonomics, truly riveting.

January 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Phil said...

Thanks David. I've actually had the pleasure of reading Freakonomics...it was very good. Have also read Blink and soon will read Outliers...and Gladwell has some really interesting New Yorker articles in his blog archive...

March 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM

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