My Dad loved to read the New Yorker magazine so I decided to subscribe the other day and I was reviewing this months edition on line. I noted with interest the Video section showcasing a conference hosted by the New Yorker on “2012: Stories From the Near Future,” which took place on May 6 and 7, 2007.
The first video was of Malcolm Gladwell speaking on "the importance of stubbornness and collaboration in problem-solving." I was able to download the video to ITunes and transfer it to my video IPOD. It is amazing the video content that is now available via ITunes for the IPOD.
I have really enjoyed Gladwell books, Tipping Point and Blink. Anyway, as I watched the video he began talking about someone I know, Andrew Wiles. This was his example of stubbornness. Andrew solved Fermat's Last Theorem and became Sir Andrew Wiles in the process.
Andew came to live at our home in Sewanee in 1971 for the summer. Mom was always taking in young people and helping them.
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