The ones that work best are about not being a Goliath. The trouble with the book is that they are not great illustrations of his chosen theme. Gladwell illustrates these lessons with a characteristically dizzying array of stories, the subjects of which range from high school girls' basketball to child murder and the Holocaust. People who seem weak can turn out to be surprisingly strong.
The strong are often surprisingly weak, if looked at from the right angle. As Gladwell says, Goliath had as much chance against David as a man with a sword would have had against someone armed with a. Once David had persuaded the Israelites that single combat didn't need to mean sword versus sword, but could be any weapon you like, there was only ever going to be one winner. The best, like David, were lethally accurate, and Goliath was not a small target. Ancient armies contained teams of slingers, who could be deadly from distances as great as 200 yards.
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