Brainless: Malcolm Gladwell's Misguided War On Football — forbes.com

It’s not in the nature of celebrated author Malcolm Gladwell to boast, which is ironic, given he has much to boast about. He could if he were the bragging sort, brag about his five best-selling books, and his place in American business culture as the inventor of the 10,000 hour rule and the “tipping point”; both of which have been worked into corporate strategies world-wide. Yet few know that his expertise and genius extend to the field of American football and the damage it’s instilling in our youth, college and professional athletes. But does it? “Can you point to another industry in America that in the course of doing business, maims one-third of its employees (for life)?” Gladwell asks in this recent interview on Bloomberg, “Football is increasing a ghettoized sport… a moral abomination.”

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