from an interview with MALCOLM GLADWELL in RUNNER"S WORLD by JERRY STICKER: MG: In David and Goliath, I spend a lot of time talking about what happens when you have nothing to lose or when there’s a gun to your head. I’m really interested in people with some kind of disability who become very successful. A lot of times you listen to those stories and these people approach the world in a very different way. They’re willing to take chances and try things others wouldn’t try because their baseline is failure. If you go into something with that mind-set, you have a greater chance of failure but also a greater chance of great success. So someone coming out of Kenya for whom running if it doesn’t work—it’s not like they have all kinds of opportunity costs in running. There is zero opportunity cost. It’s this, or it’s nothing. That’s a very useful mind-set, particularly for a sport that’s built around will. Ultimately you have to want it. It’s easier to want it if you don’t have a plan B to fall back on.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:55:30 +0000
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