Malcolm Gladwell's David And Goliath

In David and Goliath author Malcolm Gladwell talks about how Vivek Ranadive overcomes many obstacles while building his basketball team full of nerdy girls. At first Vivek didn’t understand the concept of basketball he thought it was a pointless game. Later he became the couch of his daughter's basketball team and went on to compete in the nationals . It shows how sometimes things aren’t so appealing to us at first so we tend to denounce them. Rather than taking time to develop interest or understanding the subject we just label it as a dislike. Such as taking a math class, we automatically assume it will be boring just by judging the first day. Instead of being open minded we close off what we think is too complicated.

The Redwood city girls weren’t the athletic type, and according to the list of aspects a basketball player must have in order to be considered a basketball player the Redwood city girls had none, therefore they were labeled as the underdogs. This is a great example of how society labels an individual and creates expectations. We must look like this or act like this in order to be normal. But what really is the definition of being a normal person? Well there isn’t any exact definition. We create a list of aspects

Gladwell explains that in order to bring greater change one must be disagreeable. A disagreeable man needs to be willing to take risks and put himself outside of the norm, he must disregard society's expectations. Randive did just that, instead of playing basketball the way every other team did he decided to play the game on his own terms. What we don’t understand is what we think of as a weakness can actually be a strength and what we assume are our strengths can initially be our weaknesses. We automatically presume that we have won or lost before factoring anything out of the situation. When in that situation the turnout could be the exact