#malcom gladwell

[2mo3cm-man]

[themadchatterer]

Identifying Your Super Power(s)

Hello little blog, my old friend. I’ve come to write in you again. It’s been a while, but you’ve been on my mind. There is no other platform so perfect for the morning thoughts I'm having about people and archetypes.

Asking the question, “Who are you?” can elicit confusion. Asking, “How do you see yourself?” prompts ramblings, a paragraph length of descriptors. “What do you do,” which is the favored way Americans like to identify to each other, is just a career or job question. It doesn’t really say much about who you are underneath and inside. But I think author Malcolm Gladwell was onto something when he described personality types in his book The Tipping Point back in the day. Though the book has been out for a while, and this info has been written about many times, it’s still good stuff and deserves a refresher look. In chapter two Gladwell describes three special types of people:

Connectors: These people link us up with the world, introduce us to our social circles – these people we rely on more heavily than we realize. Connectors are people with a very special gift of bringing people together. Some qualities include:

Surprised you know so many people?

You enjoy people?

Have a knack for remembering names?

Like to meet new people?

Find that you collect acquaintances?

Mavens: People who have information on a lot of different products or prices or places. These people are early adopters and identifiers who become sources of information. Some qualities include:

Junk mail reader?

Like to look for deals at the grocers?

Trend watcher?

Don't buy until you've researched?

Happy to share your "good finds" with friends?

Salespeople: These are the people who persuade others to adopt ideas or products. They are able to build instant rapport with another person and gain their trust. Some qualities include:

Can't sit still when you hear a good song?

Laugh a bit too loud?

Touchy-Feely with people?

Have that special charisma?

Being in the spotlight is no big thing?

It’s said when you identify your primary “Tipping Point” you know how to capitalize on your strengths, and most importantly, you identify the qualities in archetypes that you lack in your life. You might even say recognizing your primary archetype reveals one of your super powers.

The tendency is to see qualities from more than one archetype in ourselves. I did. With all three archetypes. I do have the nerdiness of a Maven and I have the touch-feely quality when talking to others. But if I look over the many years of my life, starting from my kindergarten years, especially how I am around others, I'm definitely a Connector.

When you recognize your primary archetype, you can look for people who complement you. You likely need a different archetype than yourself in your life to help you further your goals--personal or job related--to help you think and act more holistically.

So do these things: 1. Identify yourself. Are you a Connector, a Maven or a Salesman? 2. Evaluate your way of living. Are you setting yourself up for success or failure? Connectors build bridges, Mavens dig deep and research, and Salesmen influence and sell. What are you doing? 3. Identify your missing archetype. Do you need a Salesperson, Connector or Maven? Go find them.

Share and trade your superpower with others and watch your life bloom in ways you didn’t even imagine.

Connect with me if you want to learn the specifics of why I know I'm a Connector. I would enjoy learning how you identify yourself, too.

[inknose]

At this point I can cross my eyes and just kind of Feel the shape of the description as I scroll by and that alone is enough for me to know what I'm going to click on

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

[upthewerewolves]

Anytime I go on linkedin I’m instantly so annoyed. There’s something uniquely grating about the type of grifters who post on there and everyone acting like they give a shit about some “thought leader” whose no more qualified to have a thought on business acumen than I am.

[clarafordahwin]

Why does the mlm exposure podcast have so many Malcom gladwell ads...

[nemi20499999]

First Post of the Articel of Malcom Gladwell.

It's a lot but definitely an intresting read in which Gladwell explains his theory that Eric and Dylan were the founding fathers of a kind of movement that inspired countless others.

Personally, I think he was absolutely right, especially considering that his article was written 10 years ago and to this day we can still see copycats that are inspired by what happened at Columbine.

[jessaerys]

#yeah and then you look at the author's work and it turns out they used to write good articles for the new yorker#yknow the magazine with famously intricate fact checking#and then the publisher of whatever book they shat out said 'why would we fact check? you have credibility! and that costs money!'#and then you become malcolm gladwell

i listen to a lot of talk radio style podcasts from reputable sources (vox, npr, etc) where they often interview writers of new nonfiction books and what you realize quite often is that they'll just let any bozo make outrageous claims

[schrodingers-dove]

so on some level dean is dreading this and getting ready to martyr his ass when he hops on pop the first time, but is also kinda looking forward to being the more experienced one yeah? and then it's like. okay so uh. john's out of practice but he's put in malcom gladwell's ten thousand hours (of cocksucking)

[roach-works]

hi! I've always admired how you include infrastructure systems in your worldbuilding, and I was wondering if you have any book/documentary/podcast/etc. recs for someone who wants to go into gnarly detail about (for example) wastewater processing, O2 production, and simulated weather systems on a generation ship, but whose current level of knowledge is just "I read a lot of sci-fi?" I find the stuff fascinating in other people's writing, but figuring out where to start research is overwhelming.

shit, that's tough. most of my qualifications are 'i also read a lot of sci fi' but i also read a lot of those pop-up pocket news articles about technology and the environment... my brain isn't one of those kinds of brains where there's much differentiation between what im reading, what im writing, and who im in conversation with. im just always reading everything and having opinions on it and telling my friends what i just learned and learning more about what they learned and so on... tumblr's great for that, honestly. follow a lot of environment and good news blogs, and you'll get an interesting feed of interesting updates on the global ecology.

i would also suggest browsing national geographic, wired, and make magazine websites, if you can. get some good paywall blockers, or dish out for a subscription... the atlantic also has interesting stuff here and there.

'how it's made' type videos are great, especially older mr rogers era stuff, where the machines are less digital and more manual.

get a library card, especially for ebooks--if you're american you can use libby--and browse nonfiction. you can also just ask librarians to help you find stuff. i really admire science writers mary roach and randall munroe, think ryan north is very entertaining, and find malcom gladwell and bill bryson interesting if not particularly trustworthy.

hope this helps! i don't have any more specific suggestions, sorry.

EDIT: GET DUCK DUCK GO AS YOUR SEARCH ENGINE AND FIREFOX WITH UBLOCK AS YOUR BROWSER. i can't emphasize enough how much more useful your search results will be when you need to learn real information about things like ships and sewage systems and oyster farming. these days google only sends you to amazon, wayfair, and pinterest, it's fucking useless if you're not shopping, and sucks even if you are shopping.

there's other, more specialized browsers too that are worth a look.

and of course the internet archive has the wayback machine plus a lot of cool old books for free:

edit edit: here's another post on good search engines

[collapsedsquid]

Employers now combing through employee records to find dangerous employees, if you've read Malcom Gladwell you're on notice.

[threeboy]

I read 49% of Malcom Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" and stopped.

[haleingstorm]

10 people I'd like to get to know Better tag!

tagged by @thesummerstorms like a week ago, I swear I was planning on doing this sooner!

Last song: Wild Horses by Gracie Power

Last Book: life's been crazy recently so I haven't had much time to read, But the next book I'm planing on reading is Tipping Points by Malcom Gladwell

Last Movie: Mulan! Love Mushu so much.

Last Show: Teen Wolf: that stupid show has me in it's clutches and it wouldn't let go.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: sweet all the way for me, although I want my spice tolerance to be better, it is still at pitiful levels.

last internet search: 'Peter Hale alpha form' for a teen wolf fic I'm writing.

no pressure taging! @literallyjustforlurking @fairyspheres

[miraclemaya]

wait was the shooter like a malcom gladwell guy???? or is that bullshit. really really funny if it's true

[incorrectquotesideas-deactivated]

Person A, to Person C: You gotta listen to B, they’re right on this one. Sorry.

Person B: I know what I’m talking about. I have my 10.000 hours. Outliers. You should read it. Malcom Gladwell. It’s one of my desert island books. Along with Machiavelli’s The Prince, Freak by John Leguizamo, and any of the scripts from the first season of Vampire Diaries.

[lost-wandering-historian]

Hi! This is kind of random but I saw the post about your What Is Evil class and was wondering if you have any recorded lectures or the reading list? I just think it would be an interesting thing to read about and I'm nerdy like that lol 😅 no worries if not!

You know, you are the second person to ask me for this list. And I am always happy to help out a fellow nerd. Sadly, there are no recording I know of for this course but I do have the readings.

Our main book was Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective by Luke Russell which I found to be a really good starting place for the discussion of what is Evil. I will add the rest of the readings under a read more split cause the list is long. Here it goes:

-Brothers Grimm: Hansel and Gretel; How Some Children Played at Slaughtering; The Little Red Cap; Little Snow White; Bluebeard; The Crows

-Richard Bernstein, The Abuse of Evil, pp. 53-67

-Malcom Gladwell, “Sacred and Profane,” The New Yorker: March 24, 2014

-Daniel K. Williams, Defenders of the Unborn, pp. 1-9

-Livy on the Bacchanalian conspiracy

-Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986

-Genesis, 1-3

-“An Irenaean Theodicy,” in In: Badham P. (ed) A John Hick Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1990

-Stephen de Wijze, “Insights from the Problem of ‘Dirty Hands’,” The Monist 85.2 (2002) 210-38

-Thucydides, "Melian dialogue" and "Civil strife on Corcyra"

-Euripides, Trojan Women

-Seneca, Thyestes, tr. Emily Wilson in Seneca: Six Tragedies, Oxford: 2010

-Euripides, Medea, tr. C.A.E. Luschnig

-Erich Fromm, “The Present Human Condition,” The American Scholar 25, no. 1 (1955): 29-35.

-Sophocles, Philoctetes, tr. David Grene, Complete Greek Tragedies, Chicago: 1957

-Selections from Hannah Arendt, “Eichmann in Jerusalem” The New Yorker, February 9, 1963

-Hannah Pitkin, “Relativism, a lecture,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 1994, 25:176-87

-Paul Elie, “What do the Church’s Victims Deserve?” The New Yorker, April 8, 2019

Those are the all readings on our syllabus (minus the ones that were selections that he put together and gave to us that I can't find). You can find copies of most of these as PDFs on various site or copies of the books at your local library. Most the these are Classics-based (aka Ancient Greek and Roman) since it was a course in our Classics and World Religions department. Please let me know if you have any more questions about the readings or any other such topics. Especially the classics based ones, it's what I have my degree in and I'm always happy to talk about them and their contexts. Sharing knowledge is my favorite thing to do. I hope you enjoy your evil reading!

[her-americano]

hati yang selalu bingung, mengajarkan bahwa ini saatnya belajar mengambil keputusan, sulit atau tidak. berada diantara dua pilihan atau lebih. 2 tahun lalu pernah memberi hadiah untuk teman saya buku Blink karya Malcom Gladwell, padahal buku itu cocok sekali dengan saya untuk tipe orang yang penuh keraguan, apalagi ketika dihadapkan pada pilihan sulit. sepertinya harus membelinya untuk diri sendiri.