Monday, April 12, 2010

What the Dog Saw

Have you ever wondered why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup?

Malcolm Gladwell knows how to write.He had three bestsellers under his belt and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.Times are hard, good ideas are scarce,it may just be true. But more about that later.The first deals with what he calls obsessives and minor geniuses, the second with flawed ways of thinking. The third focuses on how we make predictions about people,will they make a good employee, are they capable of great works of art, or are they the local serial killer?

His forensic dissection of the collapse of Enron and his survey of the causes of the Challenger space shuttle disaster manage to be fresh and compelling when you could be forgiven for thinking there was nothing left to say about the events. “The Art of Failure” is a fascinating examination of how experience plays a part in how you’ll fail when you do fail.The common theme that runs through all Gladwell’s pieces is his desire to show us the world through the eyes of others – even if the other happens to be a dog. Inevitably this becomes the world as Gladwell sees it through the eyes of others.

It’s book to look into our lives from a different point of view,because a view can change the whole path.

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