I was at a conference & had the honor & privilege of running into Malcolm Gladwell after his keynote presentation. I asked for a selfie and he said "YES!" The list I complied is 10 of his thoughts/quotes.
1. "The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire."
2. "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do."
3. "There is no more powerful driver of behavior than a sense of belonging."
4. "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts."
5. "If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior... you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured."
6. "Becoming famous doesn't happen overnight. It's the result of a slow accumulation of advantages."
7. "I define connection as the act of bringing two or more things together in such a way that something flows between them."
8. "In order to change our behavior we have to change our environment."
9. "We are all susceptible to the lure of immediacy: the desire to do things quickly, efficiently, and with as little effort as possible."
10. "The key to good decision-making is not knowledge. It is understanding."
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