Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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