NewsStoryOfTheDay www.facebook.com www.twitter.com Campaign to have Christopher Hitchens knighted www.ipetitions.com wwoutliers.blogspot.com Malcolm Gladwell, best selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, has a new book Outliers. Apart from being an excellent book on success, it may give insight on Gladwell himself, since he would appear to an outlier too. After having a night to sleep on what I heard from Malcolm Gladwell here are my comments. Note, I have read all his books including Outliers and attended his early sold-out show in London on November 24. Gladwell participated in a BBC Radio 4 show tinyurl.com , one of the panelists singled out the aircraft story as exceptional. Less than 12 hours later Gladwell stands before a packed house at London’s Lyceum Theatre without a pre-planned theme or even topic. This point was well explored in Stephen Moss’s guardian article. tinyurl.com Here are some points which strike me. The radio show gave him the topic of his talk later that day. I believe it accounted for the material appearing slightly disorganized, however it was still entertaining. His theme the “ethnic theory of plane crashes” pointed to the Outliers theme in a creative way. Gladwell wove many stories, including 2 other airplane disasters around the main theme of the Columbian airline’s Avianca 052 plane crash. This led the audience to almost forget that we are listening to a plane crash story. Along the way we learned (and not necessarily in this order <b>…</b>