Book: David and Goliath

I loved this book but I have a really hard time explaining what it's about.

From someone paid to write

In DAVID AND GOLIATH, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, suffer from a disability, lose a parent, attend a mediocre school, or endure any number of other apparent setbacks.

His stories range from the conflict in Northern Ireland, parents who lost children, brilliant students who drop out of chosen studies because they chose elite universities instead of lower-ranked schools, the civil rights movement, class size, and the war in Vietnam.  Each time he makes the point that the situation did not conform to our preconceptions of how power, money and influence shape outcomes. Applying force backfires, forgiveness offers freedom, status creates anxiety which causes failure instead of success. Each time, what appears to be true is not.

Reading the book is like looking at a Salvador Dali painting where the view changes radically once someone points it out to you.. then you can't see the painting as you originally saw it.