My good friend Santos runs Level 10 CrossFit here in Oroville.  He loans me books from time to time, and I usually read them, but The Tipping Point took me a lot longer than usual to get to.  Not sure what took me so long, but I’m glad I finally picked it up.  Malcolm Gladwell is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.  His slow meandering through what seems like the most unrelated aspects of life finds a common thread that brings you to a new understanding of what it means to be human. 

The ultimate premise of the book is the idea of the tipping point.  That in every situation where word-of-mouth, or grassroots, or epidemic movements occur, there is a tipping point.  For a while, it goes slowly, till it reaches a threshold.  At that point, it has found it’s tipping point.  And it tips.  That is a really basic description of the idea, but Gladwell unpacks this idea in places most people would never think to look.  He connects dots where I would never think to connect.  And he shows us, very convincingly I might add, that

Tipping points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.  Look at the world around you.  It may seem like an immovable, implacable place.  It is not.  With the slightest push – in just the right place – it can be tipped.