What you didnt know about Goliath

                       
      The book David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell focus’ on the story of you guessed it David and Goliath. In the introduction Gladwell begins by explaining the well-known story of the battle between David and Goliath. After explaining this story, he then begins to focus on Goliath. At first glance Goliath looks big and intimidating, but if you look at his behavior in the story this isn’t totally true. Medical experts now believe that Goliath had a rare condition called acromegaly which would have caused his enormous size and his lack of sight. Because of this he would have had no idea what David was doing until it was too late. Gladwell started his book out this way because he wanted us to see that our giants aren’t as scary as they seem. He wanted to make sure we get the story right.

       If I am totally honest I was not very interested in this book at first, I have been raised Christian my whole life, so I know the story very well. But this introduction has gotten me very excited to dig into this book and see what else I can learn. One thing that I have been learning lately is to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, to look at how each piece fits together. Looking at this storying from a completely different perspective then I’m used to has been very eye opening. There is so much more to this story then meats the eye and I can wait to see what else I can learn from it.