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Malcolm T. Gladwell, CM (born September 3, 1963) is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). All five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.Gladwell’s books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. Gladwell was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011. 

Full Name Malcolm Gladwell
Net Worth $30 Million
Date Of Birth September 3, 1963
Place Of Birth Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Profession Writer, Producer
Education University of Toronto, Trinity College, Toronto
Nationality Canadian
Parents Graham Gladwell, Joyce Gladwell
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/MalcolmGladwellBooks
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/gladwell
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321656
Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction
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1 We judge ourselves, we reach conclusions about how good we are, not by comparing ourselves to the world, but by comparing ourselves to those people immediately around us – people in the same room as us. So the kids at Harvard University, who are among the smartest students in the world, but who are at the bottom third of the class, feel dumb. They feel exactly as dumb as the bottom third of the class at East Tennessee State. Once you grasp that fact that our judgments are relative, you understand that, if that’s the case, then an elite school’s not a good idea for someone who’s going to be at the bottom of his class.
2 I don’t want people to be poor so they can learn character virtues, but, given that the world is always inevitably going to be full of suffering, we should at least understand that some of that suffering has a purpose and a function and a happy ending, that’s all.
3 When you want to understand why Davids defeat Goliaths, you can’t just tell a story in terms of material advantages. You have to understand that there is going to be sleight of hand, and trickery and clever turns, and that games will be played. What Martin Luther King’s people, principally this guy Wyatt Walker, were doing at the climactic showdown of the civil rights revolution in Birmingham, Alabama, was playing a trick. Walker played a trick on all of us..when he used the children and the fire hoses. I think there’s something kind of beautiful, beautiful and heroic about that.
4 People will comply with laws when the laws make sense, and if they don’t make sense, it is incumbent on those in power to fix them, not just ask for blind compliance because you’re the powerful party. The world doesn’t work that way.
5 I always think of my books as an ongoing conversation with myself and others and that people have without me. My hope about my books is that they will be dropped in the middle of these conversations and inspire new lines of inquiry. In no case have I reached a firm position a ‘This is what, absolutely, I think’. I feel these are all things that need to be said and thought and raised [and] that I’ll be toying with for the rest of my life.

Writer

Title Year Status Character
The Missionary 2013 TV Movie writer
Runaway Virus 2000 TV Movie magazine article “The Dead Zone”
Nova 1997 TV Series documentary original book – 1 episode

Actor

Title Year Status Character
The Jim Gaffigan Show 2016 TV Series Malcolm Gladwell
Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons 2016 TV Series

Producer

Title Year Status Character
The Missionary 2013 TV Movie executive producer

Self

Title Year Status Character
Meet the Press 2015 TV Series Himself
Being Canadian 2015 Documentary Himself
Skavlan 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest
Charlie Rose 2005-2013 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself
60 Minutes 2003-2013 TV Series documentary Himself – Writer (segment “Gladwell”) / Himself – Author, Outliers (segment “Redshirting”) / Himself – Author, Tipping Point (segment “Undercover Marketing”)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest
This Week 2013 TV Series Himself
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2009-2013 TV Series Himself – Guest
The Daily Show 2013 TV Series Himself
Today 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest
The United States of Football 2013 Documentary Himself
The Colbert Report 2007-2012 TV Series Himself / Himself – Guest
OnePeople: The Celebration 2012 Documentary Journalist / Author of ‘The Tipping Point’ ‘Blink’ and ‘Outliers’
Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011 Documentary Himself
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
Tavis Smiley 2009 TV Series Himself
Pardon the Interruption 2009 TV Series Himself
Richard & Judy 2006 TV Series Himself
The Al Franken Show 2005 TV Series Himself
The Jane Pauley Show 2005 TV Series Himself
Frontline 2001 TV Series documentary Himself
ESPN SportsCentury 2000 TV Series documentary Himself
Fareed Zakaria GPS 2011-2016 TV Series Himself / Himself – Interviewee
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2016 TV Series Himself
Larry King Now 2016 TV Series Himself – guest
CBS This Morning 2016 TV Series Himself
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore 2016 TV Series Himself – Panelist

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
60 Minutes 2004-2014 TV Series documentary Himself – Writer (segment “Gladwell”) / Himself – Author, Outliers (segment “Redshirting”) / Himself – Author, Tipping Point (segment “Undercover Marketing”)

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