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What the Dog Saw & Other Adventures

by Malcolm Gladwell
What the Dog Saw & Other Adventures

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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.

"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

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Malcolm Gladwell focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.

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.
"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

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For readers of Wired magazine, a collection of journalism that touches on the past, present, and future of technology, by a New York Times bestselling author.

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New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how these advances are radically transforming our lives. From the ways science and technology are fundamentally altering our bodies and our world (the world’s first bionic soldier, the future of evolution) to those explosive collisions between science and culture (life extension and bioweapons), we’re crossing moral and ethical lines we’ve never faced before.

As Kotler writes, “Life is tricky sport—and that's the emotional core of this story, the real reason we can’t put Pandora back in the box. When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It’s the promise of hope. And how do you stop hope?”

Join Kotler in this fascinating exploration of our incredible next: a deep dive into those future technologies happening now—and what it means to be a part of this brave new world.


About the Author

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include the nonfiction works The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, and West of Jesus, as well as the novel The Angle Quickest for Flight. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His articles have appeared in more than sixty publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, GQ, Outside, Popular Science, Men's Journal, and Discover. He also writes Far Frontiers, a blog about technology and innovation for Forbes.com, and The Playing Field, a blog about the science of sport and culture for PsychologyToday.com. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, the author Joy Nicholson.

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Weems , November 29, 2020 (view all comments by Weems)
The Gladwell I am most interested in is the explorer Gladwell, the Gladwell Who is furiously curious about a topic or a person and just wants to investigate the hell out of it. The Gladwell I am less interested in is the debater Gladwell, the one who wants to make an argument and will sometimes overstep his own logic to make that argument – if you know his Revisionist History podcast, I’m talking about the Gladwell who argues to free Brian Williams, or wants Pat Boone in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That Gladwell appears a couple of times in this collection of pieces from The New Yorker, but you will more often see the Explorer, who wants to get at the heart of the success of Ron Popeil, or the body movement of Caesar Millan, even the distinction between panicking and choking. While yes, his argument about the worth of plagiarism reeks a little of that Debater, Gladwell is probably at his finest here in this collection and also feels less dated than his notable books. I was more impressed with this read, now in 2020, than the books that put him on the map, which have ideas that have been processed and run through in so many ways now that show how much he innovated getting prevalent ideas out into the public mind, but still prove much less meaningful now.

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writermala , June 09, 2011 (view all comments by writermala)
A picture they say is worth a thousand words; Malcolm Gladwell has shown us that words can sometimes be worth a lot more than pictures. He does this so well in his piece "The picture problem." Other memorable lines are when he talks about "Did she or didn't she" versus, "I'm worth it." A classic piece though would be "The art of failure," where he sums up the difference between choking and panicking as, "Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little." These little gems make this book a keeper - a book you want by your bedside to read and reread.

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ISBN:
9780316076203
Binding:
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Publication date:
12/14/2010
Publisher:
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Pages:
448
Height:
1.30IN
Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
1.25
Copyright Year:
2010
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Author:
Steven Kotler
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Subject:
Anthologies-Essays
Subject:
Psychology

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