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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of THE TIPPING POINT, BLINK, OUTLIERS and WHAT THE DOG SAW, offers his most provocative-and dazzling-book yet.

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Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. 

Or should he have? 

In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.

Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. 

In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
 
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David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

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Listen to an excerpt from LEAN THINKING by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones and read by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

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Young Adult. THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both around the globe, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. Slava, a fourteen-year-old teen, comes to Canada with her parents and sister and a suitcase filled with memories of a lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life. She cannot forget the hunger, stench and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto, nor the fear and humiliation of being incarcerated behind a high brick wall. She cannot forget her extraordinary escape from the Ghetto, leaving behind her beloved parents and sister. Nor can she forget being swallowed up in a strange and unknown place to survive under a hidden identity. The story juxtaposes heart-wrenching scenes from a child's life in war-torn Poland with the life of a teenager trying to adjust to a new country in time of peace. In Canada, it is not easy for Slava to build a bridge between two cultures; nor is it easy to live with the turmoil of her immediate past. At the same time she must face the new challenges involved in being an immigrant, a Jew and a teenage girl. Historical notes on the Warsaw Ghetto and a bibliography for future reading have been appended for those who wish further insights.

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Malcolm Gladwell's brilliant, #1 bestselling follow-up to The Tipping Point, a book about how we make decisions and the power of intuition.

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How do we make decisions - good and bad - and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus. Leaping boldly from example to example, displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Gladwell reveals how we can become better decision makers - in our homes, our offices and in everyday life.

"Gladwell's real genius is as a storyteller. He's like an omniscient, many-armed Hindu god of anecdotes: he plucks them from every imaginable field of human endeavor. Royally entertaining." - Lev Grossman, Time 

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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

Why some people are succesful and some aren't, by the #1 bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point. 

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In this stunning new audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

At long last, a collection of the very best of Malcolm Gladwell's brilliant New Yorker essays.

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Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 bestsellers, The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many different kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; the reasons why homelessness might be easier to solve than manage; his famous profile of inventor and entrepreneur Ron Popeil; a look at why employers love personality tests; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America.

For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation-a mix tape from America's alpha mind.

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What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

#QOTD: How many copies of the #AskGaryVee Book are you going to buy?

#TIMESTAMPS
2:00 - If you had the opportunity to speak in front of an auditorium full of elementary schoolers, what would be your topic of choice and why?
5:26 - Is it possible to have TWO burning passions and pursue them at the same time without half-assing them? Or is it ideal to pick one at a time?
11:25 - Can you rate my Instagram on a 1-10 scale & tell me how I could improve it?
14:35 - If you have a business that is growing fast, is it more important to perfect the system/process or focus on adding more people to the team?
16:51 - Instagram ads look like they will be opening up soon. If you were launching a book and you could only spend money on one place in ads, would you pick Instagram or Facebook? Also, how would you hit 10k pre-orders through bulk orders, where would you focus your energy?

#LINKS
GARY ON JIMMY FALLON http://www.viddler.com/v/13aaa7
THE MONDAY VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6M-XUW4xYY
WUZZLES ON EBAY http://www.ebay.com/bhp/wuzzles
INSTAGRAM FROM THIS EP'S AUDIT https://instagram.com/whadafunk/

#AskGaryVee Episode 113: Do You Have To Choose Between Two Passions?

She works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, Mirabai Bush is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s wildly popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mirabai-bush-search-inside-yourself-contemplation-in-life-and-work/7731

Mirabai Bush — Search Inside Yourself: Contemplation in Life and Work

As a Man Thinketh - by James Allen AudioBook (Law of attraction)

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