The Point Has Tipped

I can now officially say I am more than halfway done this project. It was fun while the fun lasted Mr. Gladwell but we now must go our seperate ways. I really enjoyed reading, The Tipping Point, because it was a different style and way of reading than I am typically used to. The tough thing about reading a book such as The Tipping Point is that your brain has to work almost twice as hard to process the non-linear information that the author is throwing at you. Don't get me wrong, Malcom Gladwell is a fantastic author and he spaces out his ideas and elaborates them out to the perfect amount. With that being said I still feel like the rules and laws that he throws at you he then jolts you back and forth from topic to topic trying to relate it to the point he is making.

To be honest I'd say I was lost/confused while reading maybe once, probably twice. The thing is, if you just happen to glaze over a certain page or two and don't thoroughly break down and analyze what you're reading, you won't retain much. Gladwell also does go through his ideas rather quickly so if you miss one thing you might get lost in the connection he is trying to make.

There was though one interesting lesson that I learned from Gladwell that I had to show to my parents because it relates to me being a teenager. In Chapter 7, Gladwell conducted another case study and then discussed and analyzed the relationship between cigarette use amongst teenagers in the US and suicide rate amongst adolescent males in Micronesia.

For someone that hasn't been paying attention and then came across that last sentence they probably believe that this Gladwell guy is a pyschopath. Those two topics don't seem to correlate in any manner what so ever but somehow Malcom Gladwell makes it all make sense. That's the one thing that I do enjoy about Gladwell. His inexplicit way of taking two things that the typical human would think of as random and in some way, shape, or form, drawing a line between the two of them in how they relate.