David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Audiobook (Free)

Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014

Explore the energy of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell’s stunning examination of success, motivation, and the part of adversity in shaping our lives.

Three thousand years back on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David’s triumph was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn’t about David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, as well as the Artwork of Battling Giants possess won.

Or should he have?

In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell issues how we consider obstacles and disadvantages, offering a brand-new interpretation of what it means to become discriminated against, or deal using a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre college, or have problems with any number of other apparent setbacks.

Gladwell begins with the true story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd son those a long time ago. Following that, David and Goliath examines North Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil privileges leaders, murder as well as the high costs of revenge, as well as the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms

all to demonstrate how much of what’s beautiful and essential in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.

In the tradition of Gladwell’s previous bestsellers

The Tipping Stage, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw

David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape just how we think about the world around us.