The projectile strikes Goliath in the forehead and sends him to the ground, and David uses this opportunity to pick up Goliath’s sword and cut off the giant’s head.
David runs into the valley carrying nothing but his staff and several smooth stones, which he puts in a sling and sends hurtling through the air. King Saul tries to dissuade David, but he eventually agrees to send him because nobody else will go. At first, none of the Israelites want to face Goliath because he’s so large, but then a small shepherd boy named David volunteers. Neither army wants to advance for fear of rendering themselves vulnerable, so the Philistines send Goliath-their largest warrior-to engage in one-on-one combat. She might have simply staked her future hopes on a subject she wasn't cut out for, switched her field of study, and graduated without the benefit of an Ivy League reputation.Gladwell begins by recounting the battle of David and Goliath, an Old Testament story which takes place when the Israelites and the Philistines encounter each other in the valley of Elah. In the case of Caroline Sacks, for example, there's no way to prove that she would still be in science had she attended a less prestigious university. Yet they also radically oversimplify the issue. Gladwell's claims are striking and, as he frames them, compelling. "Rarely do we stop and consider," he writes, "whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest." In academia particularly, he says, "The Big Pond takes really bright students and demoralizes them." If you're a programmer, for example, is it better to take a chance on a small startup or to take that job with Google? Should aspiring bankers aim for Goldman Sachs or start at a boutique municipal bond company?īased on his logic in " David and Goliath," Gladwell's answer would almost definitely be to go small. Gladwell focuses his analysis on higher education, but his claims have obvious implications for career as well. Better to have gone to a non-elite institution, he says - to have been a big fish in a little pond - than have had your dreams and confidence crushed. But Harvard students compare themselves to their Harvard peers, and that's bound to make those in the bottom third feel stupid and unsuccessful.
The worst STEM students at Harvard, he claims, may be as smart as the top third at a lower ranked college. Gladwell chalks this up to relative deprivation. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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