chapter 2 blog

In chapter 2 Gladwell talked about the Law of the Few and talks about the few people that have the ability to communicate superior to others. I think that the most interesting argument he presented was when he was talking about 6 degrees of separaration and how the did the study that they sent out letters and told the people to send them to people who they thought would know the stockbroker. Well it turned out that half of the letters were recieved by 3 people. And in this being shown changes the definition that we all know about the six degrees of separation, i used to think it was everyone was linked together in 6 steps but it changes that definition to "it means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps , and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few", i thought that was a very interesting twist on what i thought i knew.