The Tipping Point and Success

I'm a person who through my short life transits from reading voraciously to only reading what I'm browsing online. During last summer, I read a host of business-related books (many of which came from the 100 Best Business Books list); most dealt with strategy, leadership, and management -- directed toward upper management, executives, and entrepreneurs. I did, however, read a book suggested from a book of mine entitled, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. The thesis of the book is that small changed can facilitate great changed; such as the "broken glass paradigm" that if one fixes broken glass and graffiti the inner-cities, violent crime rates can tremendously drop because of the illustration that there is an authority figure there, that the neighborhoods are forgotten because of the destruction.

In any event, I took from that book that a critical mass can be reached. I believe the question is when one is willing to work toward it. Business is littered with people too stubborn to give up and eventually start succeeding. And they hit it hard. Really hard. And become more successful than they can ever believe.


I'm a person who's become extremely intrigued by entrepreneurship. I'm an engineer at heart, and that's exactly what I believe entrepreneurship is: business engineering.



Have I made it in internet marketing? No, but I'm a stubborn person and I'll stay at it until I make it somehow. And if I don't, I'll find a different route toward entrepreneurship. I have a liberal arts BA, but I don't know what else I'd do with myself. I can't imagine myself working for the man for my life, or working a 9-5 job as I'd get bored doing that for decades. I need something unusual and expansive and I'll toward it until I hit my tipping point.