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geboren: (3. September 1963)
ist ein in England geborener kanadischer Journalist, Autor und Redner. Er ist seit 1996 fester Autor für The New Yorker erweiterte Nutzung der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Gladwell wurde 2011 in den Order of Canada berufen. Gladwell wurde in Fareham, Hampshire, England, geboren. Seine Mutter ist Joyce (geb. Nation) Gladwell, eine jamaikanische Psychotherapeutin. Sein Vater, Graham Gladwell, war ein Mathematikprofessor aus Kent, England. Als er sechs Jahre alt war, zog seine Familie von Southampton in die mennonitische Gemeinde Elmira, Ontario, Kanada. Er hat zwei Brüder. Während seiner Kindheit lebte Malcolm im ländlichen Ontario Mennonite Land, wo er eine mennonitische Kirche besuchte. Untersuchungen des Historikers Henry Louis Gates Jr. ergaben, dass einer von Gladwells Vorfahren mütterlicherseits eine freie jamaikanische farbige Frau (Mischung aus Schwarz und Weiß) war, die Sklavenhalterin war. Sein Ur-Ur-Ur- Großmutter war von der ethnischen Zugehörigkeit der Igbo aus Nigeria, Westafrika. Im Epilog seines Buches Outliers beschreibt er viele glückliche Umstände, die seiner Familie im Laufe mehrerer Generationen zuteil wurden und zu seinem Erfolgsweg beitrugen. Gladwell sagte, dass seine Mutter sein Vorbild als Schriftstellerin sei.
 Er hat sieben Bücher veröffentlicht:
-Der Wendepunkt (2000)
-Blink: Die Kraft des Denkens ohne Denken (2005)
-Ausreißer: Die Erfolgsgeschichte (2008)
-Was der Hund sah: Und andere Abenteuer (2009)
-David und Goliath (2013)
-Mit Fremden sprechen (2019)
-Die Bombermafia (2021)

Blink pdf von Malcolm Gladwell

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?
In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.
"In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. But this one was almost perfectly preserved. It stood close to seven feet tall. It had a kind of light-colored glow that set it apart from other ancient works. It was an extraordinary find. Becchina's asking price was just under $10 million."