Good evening and welcome, both newcomers and repeat offenders, if you look around here, you notice the great many ponderous and intangible books out there in the world. That being the case, its always refreshing to find whose impact in the portion to the Tipping Point is one of those books, from time to time, usually its quite unexpected, work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain, one strong spray with a passages to clean up, suddenly we can finally grasp things around us that weve always been looking at, we drop the enter gp and more sharply, it can be rather intoxicating, once again this is that kind of book. One of the delights i find of the Tipping Point is that malcolm asked the kind of question that a child might ask, the kind of question that is on the tip of her brain like the name on the tip of the tongue. Often we find it hard to focus on, not despite a bit but because of it. In the question he asks to hear is that one once weve heard asked, why didnt anybody thi
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Despite having written a book called blink the power of thinking without thinking i think one of the beauties of Malcolm Gladwells works is that he makes you think. His work uncovers truths hidden in strange data and as a marketer and a philosophy major, things that are strange and uncovering hidden truths are really something dear to my heart and what another reason why i like malcolmgladwell. His Academic Research and critical analysis and fascinating style provides astonishing and useful insights about our world and our place in it. His bestselling books travel avenues of science, reason and anecdote and include the Tipping Point, outliers, blink and how many people have read a Malcolm Gladwell book . Thats a lot of you. That explains why Malcolm Gladwell is the number one bestselling author in amazon on the business section and i think he ranks 19th overall in history on amazon. Com. [applause] so his new book which he is here to talk about is called david and goliath underdogs, mi
And stayed at the Naval War College. Found living on the work college was not exactly what he was looking for, study took a little tour of the town. He saw this house which was at that point used as the commandants quarters and decided this would make a fine summer white house. He was here for two summers, usually late summer. Late august into the middle to late part of september was primarily the two years he was here. The summer of 1957 was the integration of Central High School in little rock, arkansas. A very big politically charged event he did deal with while here in newport. Said the white house was essentially wherever he is. There were always things that go on he had to deal with here, as well as his Remote Office at the Naval War College which you get access by boat. A beautiful area. This is historically part of a larger fort. It was at that point easily defendable. It was still under native protection. It was navy protection. It was easier for the secret service to secure t
Building in the United States of america. It has a wonderful 600 year story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all, the synagogue is a house of worship. We have services here all year round, a fulltime rabbi, a congregation of about 120 members, and it is orthodox in its service. That is what we are doing today. The story starts in 1492 in spain, when eating of ferdinand and clean isabella issued and Queen Isabella issued a decree. It was they wanted a purely gavelic country, so they the jewish people two choices. Convert to catholicism or leave. Those who converted were called conversos. Others chose to remain jews in a secret. Objects. Their ritual if they have been found out, they would have been tortured and put to death. To get a sense of how spaniards of jews at the time, their nickname was morano, ort swine. They had four months to get there affairs in order, which meant you of everything away to the spanish government, such as their land or any