Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we werethat is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we madeon what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.
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Malcolm Gladwell was a contemporary Canadian journalist and author. Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Health — Well-being of mind and body, and the pursuit of vitality