Saturday, May 9, 2009

Malcom Gladwell on how to win wars...and basketball games...oh and, how to lessen anxieties about lost luggage.

This is such an amazing article, you all must read it. (It is in the most recent, May 11, issue of the New Yorker.)

Malcom Gladwell relates the strategy used the 'full court press' strategy used by some basketball teams, focusing on a middle school girls league specifically in the article, to tactics used by Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Bedouin forces to defeat the Turks in WWI.

I wish I could write on this for 2 hours right now, but it will have to wait until tomorrow morning.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love how every post from the past ten minutes ends with "I gotta go." - Andrea