The Tipping Point (2002) by Malcolm Gladwell

When

I read this during my doctoral program.

Why

For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in the potential interrelations or connections between various social phenomena. In ways, this interest explains some of my strengths as a scholar as well as some of the areas I need to improve in as a thinker, etc. This book, which explores ways that certain actions and events can eventually influence others, speaks to those sensibilities.

How

While the book did not directly inform my scholarship, it did indirectly by helping fuel my impetus to “see” or argue for interrelations or connections between distinct phenomena, disciplines, etc.