![]() ![]() 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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