From one piece Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Conversations with Tyler, Ep. 20) 7 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I suppose the best way to sum them up is that, like all highly competitive subspecialties, everyone wants to believe they have an answer that works for everyone when, in fact, the truth is that there’s probably 10 different ways to run, train effectively for long distance, and we’re just slow to understand how variable runners are.
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Effective satirical impersonation finds something essential and buried in a character and magnifies itTheir words
It’s not as good, and it’s not as good because the truly effective satirical impersonation is one that finds something essential about the character and magnifies it, something buried that you wouldn’t ordinarily have seen or have glimpsed in that person.
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Extracting running talent from a population needs a very broad base, and that base is goneTheir words
In order to extract running talent from the general population, you need to have a really, really broad base and the broad base is gone.
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What I mean is that it’s very important, if you are a writer, to remain current. And the greatest danger you face is this fossilization of your positions and views.
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Encouraging experimentation and opening opportunities requires much more tolerance of mediocrityTheir words
Well, I suppose I could expand on this notion that, to encourage experimentation and open opportunities, one must also be much more tolerant of mediocrity.
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Elite colleges behave like luxury-handbag businesses protecting exclusivity rather than like educatorsTheir words
Look, these guys are in the luxury handbag business. They’re not in the education business.
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A truly elite college should select students most motivated to use its intellectual assets, not its brandTheir words
If you’re running a truly elite college, what you want to select for is the kids who are most powerfully motivated to leverage the intellectual assets of the institution, not the brand assets of the institution.