- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, Gladwell considers the strange fact that there is a societal need for individuals who have faced adversity. He acknowledges that this is somewhat difficult to accept, since not everyone is capable of surviving hardship. And yet, traumatic or generally negative experiences often lead to forms of progress that humanity might not otherwise achieve. Jay Freireich is a perfect example of this idea, since his difficult childhood gives him “the courage to think the unthinkable.” Because Freireich has been through so much, he isn’t afraid to do whatever it takes to succeed in finding a cure for childhood…