Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014

Explore the energy from the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell’s dazzling examination of achievement, motivation, as well as the function of adversity in shaping our lives.

Three thousand years back on the battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David’s triumph was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn’t about David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, as well as the Artwork of Battling Giants have won.

Or should he have?

In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell issues how we consider obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what this means to become discriminated against, or deal using a disability, or lose a mother or father, or attend a mediocre college, or suffer from a variety of other obvious setbacks.

Gladwell begins with the true tale of what happened between your giant and the shepherd young man those many years ago. Following that, David and Goliath examines North Ireland’s Issues, the thoughts of cancer research workers and civil privileges leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, as well as the dynamics of effective and unsuccessful classrooms

all to show how much of what’s beautiful and essential in the globe comes from what looks like suffering and adversity.

In the tradition of Gladwell’s previous bestsellers

The Tipping Stage, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw

David and Goliath pulls upon history, mindset, and powerful storytelling to reshape just how we think about the world around us.