If you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.
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Other Malcolm Gladwell quotes:
Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.
Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.
Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.
