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Have you read any of Malcolm Caldwell's books or essays? If not, I highly recommend them. It was a year or so a go in a college English class that I first read a excerpt from his book The Tipping Point. I loved it. My parents then started reading his books and we would have great discussions about them. When I was home in the winter I listened to his book Blink on my ipod to and from work. (FYI they are great books to listen to...I like hearing his voice). Yesterday I saw somewhere that he has a new book out called Outliers.

Malcolm Gladwell was born in England and raised in Canada. He now lives in New York and writes for the New Yorker magazine.
Tipping Point is a book about change. He asks and examines questions like: "why did crime drop so dramatically in New York City in the mid-1990's? How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so powerful? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read?"

The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.
"Blink" is a book about the kind of thinking that happens in the blink of an eye. So interesting! He explains that in the first two seconds some really powerful and important conclusions can be made.
Below is the description of the book "Outliers" found Here
"In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" -- the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band."

Happy Reading!
xo