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E-mail a friendDecember 4, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author and writer for The New Yorker, explains why expertise in any field requires 10,000 hours of practice. Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza says fear challenged her Catholic faith.
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Best-selling author describes the major cultural factors that lead to plane crashes. (1:34)
Full interview. (10:09)
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer with The New Yorker. Named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, his books are provocative and thought-provoking. Gladwell originally planned on a career in advertising, but a job with the conservative monthly The American Spectator changed his course. He also reported on business and science and was New York bureau chief for The Washington Post. In his new book, Outliers, he analyzes why people are successful.
Immaculée Illibagiza
Immaculée Illibagiza
Author who survived the Rwanda genocide tells how faith kept her alive during the massacre. (3:00)
Full interview. (13:07)
Immaculée Ilibagiza survived the '94 genocide in her native Rwanda by hiding for 91 days in a tiny bathroom with 7 other women. She was a student at the National University of Rwanda, visiting her Tutsi family, when the slaughter began. Four years later, she immigrated to NY and began working with the U.N. In '07, she was awarded The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace. Ilibagiza shares her story of turning torture into triumph in her books Left to Tell and Led by Faith.