Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

Gladwell's hair was the inspiration for Blink. It has been claimed[who?] that fees paid by organizations he writes about has affected his journalism. " Farhad Manjoo at Salon described the book as "a real pleasure.

Gladwell CM (born September 3 1963) is a British-Canadian journalist bestselling author and speaker. He has written four books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) and What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009) a collection of his journalism.