Malcolm Gladwell's David And Goliath

Take some time to think about the world around us. Everywhere a person looks, they see trial and tribulation throughout each individual person. Some take their hardship in life with ease and pride, while others continually blame the circumstances and conditions around us. In Malcolm Gladwell’s novel, David and Goliath, he begins to show that situations have nothing to do with our advantages and strength in life. If we want to have a better turn of events, we need to be the ones to make them, and not let others or our environment be the ones to decide what is going to happen. This can most commonly be seen throughout modern society today, remarkable people taking chances and making their own future and changing decisions for themselves. Making

Fox. In 1991, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a disorder that leads to shaking and difficulty with motion of the body. There have been many cases throughout the world of people taking the new of a recent diagnosis, to sad extremes of feeling bad for themselves and just waiting for the time to end. Alas, Michael J. Fox took this opportunity to not look back on all the good times of his life, but to start making more, that Parkinson’s wasn’t going to hold him back. He recently started a new comedy show in NBC, in which he brings light to the subject of his disorder and hardships that surround it. At the first look of his new show he quotes that, “I have challenges that comes with Parkinson’s, but my new experience is to deal with things though humor,” (Fox). Fox’s theory of looking on the bright side of things can also be seen in Gladwell’s novel. The story of Martin Luther King Jr. and Wyatt Walker shows also about taking bad situations and making the best out of them. After one rally in Birmingham, many children and school kids were sent to jail, and instead of making it sound like an awful place to be Gladwell quotes that Wyatt told the parents and on goers, “Your daughters and sons are in jail….Don’t worry about them….They are suffering for what they believe, and they are suffering to make this nation a better nation… If they want some books, we will get them. I catch up on my reading every time I go to jail,” (Gladwell, 188). Each person took their situation that could have been bad, and made it into something