Malcolm Gladwell

Canadian journalist and science writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Born 1963 · age 63

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a British-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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2019“…You can’t separate race from police shooting cases, but you also can’t say that’s the whole story.”In their wordsOn police shootings in “Oprah Talks to Revisionist History's Malcolm Gladwell” in O Magazine (2019 Aug 7)Read the whole statement

2014“The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist . He basically gave me my view of the world.”In their wordsMalcolm Gladwell in: Pamela Paul (2014), By the Book: : Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review. p.Read the whole statement

2011“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover.”In their words1 January 2011Malcolm Gladwell, in Cheryl Glenn, et al Harbrace Essentials, Cengage Learning, 1 January 2011, p. 165Read the whole statement

2010“Outlier” is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.”In their wordsMalcolm Gladwell (2010) in: "Q and A with Malcolm," at gladwell.com, quoted in: Kate Vitasek (2011). The Vested Outsourcing Manual, p. 364Read the whole statement

2008“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”In their wordsMalcolm Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. p. 198Read the whole statement

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You’re always, as a journalist, walking this fine line between faithfully representing the complexity of the thing you’re writing about and retaining your readers.
On the challenges of a journalist writing a book in “Malcolm Gladwell on Talking to Strangers and how podcasting changed his approach to, Own words
If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.
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Member of the Order of Canada

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