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Malcolm Gladwell on the importance of stubbornness

Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2015/03-22-malcolm-gladwell-on-the-importance-of-stubbornness.


A very interesting speech of Malcolm Gladwell on stubbornness in below YouTube video. Dead link.

Video is here: Conference: Genius in 2012

He makes references to

  1. Linear B, i.e., historic greek symbols
  2. Michael Ventris, deciphering Linear B
  3. Andrew Wiles and his proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, no integer solutions $a,b,c$ for $a^n+b^n=c^n$, $n>2$
  4. Gerhard Frey, linking Taniyama–Shimura conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem
  5. the mismatch problem, i.e., finding the right personnel for a task given only information on some predictors, e.g., IQ-tests, height, grades, etc.
  6. the capitalization problem, i.e., making full use of the potential of personnel, and not squandering talent

Also see Malcolm Gladwell's article on the Flynn effect: What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race.