The story in the Bible goes like this: Once there was a fight in Israel between Israelites and Philistines. The Philistines sent Goliath, a six foot giant for an one-on-one fight with the best warrior from the Israelites army. David, a shepard boy nominates himself to fight on behalf of the Israelites. With no formal army training, armed with just a sling with a few stones, the young shepard boy took Goliath down and thus winning the great fight by the grace of god.
Malcolm sees this story differently, he suggests that David won because the giants are not always as strong as we think they are and sometimes their advantages turn to disadvantages. When an underdog goes to fight with a giant with an unconventional strategy, they can win at a great possibility. It's a book about how the underdogs confront their giants,
There is a concept of "desirable difficulty" in the book. How can a difficulty in life be 'desirable'? There are stories of people with 'dyslexia' and how they attained great success in life. People who rose up in life from abusive, very poor background by using their upbringing as strong reasons in winning their battles, for example, being comfortable with failure and caring very little about disagreeing with society to get things done. They are clearly 'Davids' taking on 'Goliaths' in their own way!
Have we not seen how some of the best moments of humanity and humans arose in the history during wars, conflicts, distress, disasters, suffering and misfortunes? There is a life lesson in here about how we perceive the disadvantages and obstacles in life!
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