Malcolm Gladwell News
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When you see the headline “Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People” or “Facebook Unveils New Waste of Time,” you know you’re reading Andy Borowitz.
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If you want to silence a room filled with Japanese politicians, suggest they should learn from China.
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People often ask me for advice about public speaking, since I do a lot of it. Of course, it's often reported that people are more afraid of public speaking than death (which is not exactly empirically accurate, but it is close). In my experience, becoming a good public speaker is not a natural skill for anyone. While I now speak professionally about once a week, for sums I...
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Helena Morrissey remembers her worst moment as a woman in the City, London’s financial district. It was almost 20 years ago, when she was the only female on a team with 16 male bond fund traders at Schroders Investment Management. Her young family’s breadwinner, she’d just returned from her first maternity leave and her boss passed her over for a promotion, saying he doubted her job commitment.
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A stroke of genius is rarely a bolt from the blue, it turns out. More often than not, it’s a byproduct of one’s surroundings, says Steven Johnson in his latest counterintuitive book, “Where Good Ideas Come From.”
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Dan McLaughlin is investing 10,000 hours to become one of the world’s top golfers. The quest started three feet from the hole.
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It's well-known that busy people get the most done. Their secret is simple: They never stop moving. Of course, sitting...
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In 1931, two men were hit by cars, one in New York, the other in Munich. Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler survived to tell the tale and change the fate of nations.
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With two older sisters and two younger brothers, I am a true middle child. Like many middle children, my natural...
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Japan begins forging a road map for recovery from its worst postwar disaster next month, a process that may determine whether it sheds the legacy of the 1980s bubble or has a third “lost decade” of stagnation and deflation .
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