![]() Reasonable people may differ, but based on my reading of all of his books, I don’t think this is right. Maybe he uses these words figuratively, rather than literally, and I am being too tough on him to assume otherwise. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what Gladwell means when he talks of laws, rules, and so on. ![]() ![]() In an excerpt published in the Guardian, he wrote, “If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.” I added the emphasis on “create” to highlight the fact that Gladwell is here claiming a causal rule about the mind and brain, namely that having dyslexia causes one to become a better listener (something he says made superlawyer David Boies so successful). The emphasis on changes is in the original (at least in the version of the quote I saw on Gladwell’s Facebook page). ![]()
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