Malcolm Gladwell - an iconic writer on the hidden extraordinary in the ordinary things - weaving patterns with or without empirical evidence. After The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, comes an eclectical collection of his favorite pieces from his favorite magazine The New Yorker - written from his days as a Staff Writer since 1996. The book is a delicious read for Gladwell fans - and covers conceptually blockbuster ideas for his next book - the reason some choke and others panic, the reason why there are many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup, the hazards of statistical predictions, the trouble with personality tests and intelligence tests, the history of the world through the evolution of hair dyes...the list is indefatigably long and multi-faceted as Malcom Gladwell is truly. There's a piece about late bloomers where he says that Genius, contrary to popular opinion, has nothing to do with precocity; infact the best writers, painters and directors made it big in the late fifties and sixties. For fans of Gladwell, this is not just a curious case of what Gladwell thinks is - its the curious case of dramatic patterns in everyday life.
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