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David and Goliath: The Triumph of the Underdog
by Malcolm Gladwell
I really liked this one; I love contrarian thought experiments especially when applied to social issues and I found every word of this book fascinating.
There's been a lot of negativity around this book, which seems to come with the territory when we get into the world of behavioral economics because people don't always behave rationally. Do I think Gladwell's conclusions are iron-clad and stand up to every criticism? Of course not. I do think they hold enough merit to warrant discussion, though, and this book was full of those discussions. Only by stretching the limits of what we believe to be true can we draw firm lines around our personal beliefs, and this book is an exercise in that.
I listened to the audiobook version and was a bit nervous since I didn't know how much data would be in here, but it was a good medium and I was happy Gladwell narrated it himself. He did a good job conveying the numbers and statistics, though it wasn't super heavy in them. Gladwell is an amazing storyteller, somehow combining stories of Nazi resistance, elite college vs. very good college choices, the civil rights movement, and the 3-strikes law into an eminently palatable narrative that all tied back to his central theses - we humans are very bad at recognizing when something is too much and the U-curve will always reign supreme.
I loved this one so much, I'm actually going to listen to it all over again which is something I rarely do with any book.
There's been a lot of negativity around this book, which seems to come with the territory when we get into the world of behavioral economics because people don't always behave rationally. Do I think Gladwell's conclusions are iron-clad and stand up to every criticism? Of course not. I do think they hold enough merit to warrant discussion, though, and this book was full of those discussions. Only by stretching the limits of what we believe to be true can we draw firm lines around our personal beliefs, and this book is an exercise in that.
I listened to the audiobook version and was a bit nervous since I didn't know how much data would be in here, but it was a good medium and I was happy Gladwell narrated it himself. He did a good job conveying the numbers and statistics, though it wasn't super heavy in them. Gladwell is an amazing storyteller, somehow combining stories of Nazi resistance, elite college vs. very good college choices, the civil rights movement, and the 3-strikes law into an eminently palatable narrative that all tied back to his central theses - we humans are very bad at recognizing when something is too much and the U-curve will always reign supreme.
I loved this one so much, I'm actually going to listen to it all over again which is something I rarely do with any book.