Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan — the architect of Israel’s astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War — also wrote an essay on the story of… - Malcolm Gladwell
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Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan — the architect of Israel’s astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War — also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, “David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.
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David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger.
Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
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