Sinopse
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
Minha opinião
Histórias, várias histórias.
Como nasceu o cortador automático de vegetais, porque é que as mulheres pintam o cabelo de louro, como é que Warren Buffet enriqueceu, como o mercado já previa o escandalo da Enron, porquê é que certos cães mordem determinadas pessoas e outros não... entre outras situações que nos levam a pensar de forma imperfeita sobre factos.
Para ouvir aos poucos.
Ajuda a aumentar o conhecimento sobre certos factos.
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
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