In his essay Group Think, I believe that Malcolm Gladwell was trying to answer the question, What does “Saturday Night Live” have in common with our history? Gladwell first starts off with describing how “Saturday Night Live” came to exist in our world of entertainment. He tells his story in the third-person narrative. He describes the team of “SNL” of being very close to each other: “Everyone knew everyone and everyone was always in everyone else’s business”.

From the “SNL” story, Gladwell then transitions into a history mode. He explains how Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel started the revolution in Western Philosophy. Similar to the “SNL” crew, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel were all very close to each other. From there, Gladwell transitions into the Industrial Revolution mode, describing how Darwin, Watt, and Wedgewood came to be. Like the “SNL” crew and Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, Darwin, Watt and Wedgewood worked together to from new ideas which soon transformed into successful creations. Gladwell described that all three of these teams had something in common: they all had their “esoteric secrets” that they kept within their group of thinkers and creators.