Malcolm Gladwell Inevitable Difficulties Essay

“Desirable difficulties” is a notion taken straight from the psychological literature. They were interested in that in the context of learning theory. It is not always the case that if I make the task of learning something easier for you, your performance will improve like in Gladwell the book says “conventional wisdom holds that a disadvantage is something that ought to be avoided-that it is a setback or a difficulty that lives you worse off than you would be otherwise. But that is not always the case.” Meaning the having dyslexia is not a difficulty the can’t be change, nothing is telling you the we have a cure, however is saying the you can work with it and make it better. There are sometimes cases where your performance will improve if I make the task of learning more difficult for you. Not always, but what they do is draw a line between difficulties that are ultimately desirable and those that are not “if I could read a lot faster, it would make it a lot of things that I do easier”. I agree with Malcolm Gladwell’s book is explaining how dyslexia keeps people standing their thoughts, to have better openness,

Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Meaning the you have the power to motivate yourself to have a better power/life, and also to be open to new ideas. A good example is from Gladwell book (of Peterson’s argument is the story of how the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA hot start), to start a business you have to make some arrangement to the business, and to keep your hope way up high to keep motivating your staffs/employees your business is can keep growing to have better