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David Y Goliat: Desvalidos, Inadaptados Y El Arte de Luchar Contra Gigantes / David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
3.82 AVERAGE
1.64k reviews for:
David Y Goliat: Desvalidos, Inadaptados Y El Arte de Luchar Contra Gigantes / David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
3.82 AVERAGE
Everything Gladwell writes is excellent, and this book is no exception. He gets readers to think critically about what we accept as fact or norm by presenting other theories or ways of thinking about things. You don’t have to agree with everything Gladwell asserts, but reading his writing will certainly help expand your understanding of concepts and strengthen your critical lens.
Good—but not my favorite Gladwell book. One of the things I didn’t like was while he was explaining the battle between David and Goliath, he made a lot of presumptions yet stated them as stone cold facts.
Since he backs all his arguments up with data and has tons of conviction, it’s easy for people to take every point he makes as absolute truth. Though I freely concede the point that Gladwell has far more education and experience than me in the topics he covers in his books, I still believe it’s a mistake not to run new ideas through the filter of one’s individual knowledge and experiences before accepting an opinion as truth.
Since he backs all his arguments up with data and has tons of conviction, it’s easy for people to take every point he makes as absolute truth. Though I freely concede the point that Gladwell has far more education and experience than me in the topics he covers in his books, I still believe it’s a mistake not to run new ideas through the filter of one’s individual knowledge and experiences before accepting an opinion as truth.
Oprah-esque feel good stories of underdogs. Long on emotional appeal and short on solid research. Not a convincing presentation of his main point.
With this book, I've officially read all of Gladwell's books except "Talking to Strangers". I highly recommend all of them. This book, like all the ones I've read before is brilliant in its arguments and construction. Gladwell does an excellent job of explaining how perceived disadvantages can create circumstances for success, and he does this without diminishing the grief the disadvantages can cause. I thoroughly enjoyed this read.
Always fascinating reads, I enjoyed this book that shows you that advantages aren't always good things, and disadvantages sometimes make people very successful!
Gladwell is an entertaining writer as always, but this book is an even worse example of cherry-picked anecdotes and examples than Outliers.
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I didn't like this book. The author jumped between stories so much that it was impossible to keep track of who he was talking about.