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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Genre : Inspirational
If you’ve read any of Malcolm Gladwell’s books, you already know that he is a masterful researcher and writer who does meticulous, extensive documentation. In David and Goliath, he challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, and offers a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or suffer from a disability, or lose a parent, or experiences any number of other apparent setbacks, and arise above overwhelming odds.
It’s a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. He explores two ideas: “The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of some kind of lopsided conflicts because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them.”
Malcolm elegantly weaves in history, psychology, and storytelling to reshape the way we think about the world around us.
“The powerful and strong are not always what they seem. We always assume that being bigger and stronger and richer is always in our best interest. Vivek Ranadive, a shepherd boy named David, and the principal of Shepang Valley Middle School will tell you that it isn’t.”
“Man, money, and material aren’t always the deciding factors in a battle. In fact, what the inverted U-shaped curve tells us is that having too much money and materiel is as debilitating as having too little. Being an underdog—having nothing to lose—opens up possibilities. History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, and in a different time and a very different age, so did Leo Goure’s great rival Konrad Kellen.”
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