Malcolm Gladwell
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British-Canadian journalist and author; staff writer for The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and David and Goliath; host of the…
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13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A truly elite college should select students most motivated to use its intellectual assets, not its brand (opens korrents.com)
“If you’re running a truly elite college, what you want to select for is the kids who are most powerfully motivated to leverage the intellectual assets of the institution, not the brand assets of the institution.”
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Elite colleges behave like luxury-handbag businesses protecting exclusivity rather than like educators (opens korrents.com)
“Look, these guys are in the luxury handbag business. They’re not in the education business.”
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Encouraging experimentation and opening opportunities requires much more tolerance of mediocrity (opens korrents.com)
“Well, I suppose I could expand on this notion that, to encourage experimentation and open opportunities, one must also be much more tolerant of mediocrity.”
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A truly elite college should select students most motivated to use its intellectual assets, not its brand (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Strangers to Ourselves (opens rcmnd.app)
“There’s a book by Timothy Wilson called Strangers to Ourselves, which is one of the loveliest, most insightful books about social psychology that I ever read. And I give that a lot to people.”
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The Merchant Princes (opens rcmnd.app)
“Well, a guy, and I’ve forgotten his name, wrote a book about those families, and it’s called The Merchant Princes, and it’s fantastic.”
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (opens rcmnd.app)
“But if you know nothing about it, you should start with John Le Carre, of course, and read his first five books. So I would read at least through Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
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Strangers to Ourselves (opens rcmnd.app)