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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

HIGHLIGHTS: Malcolm Gladwell

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8 • 186 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Here you can listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/malcolm-gladwell-contrarian-thinking-social-change/id1614211565?i=1000684940694&l=nb


In this episode of In Good Company, Nicolai Tangen and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell explore why core human challenges remain unchanged despite technological advancement. Gladwell shares fascinating insights on wealth psychology and leadership, revealing why successful people can't step away from work and what makes mediocrity in sports valuable. He also takes us behind the scenes of his creative process, explaining why he prefers interviewing people "five steps down" from CEOs and how he crafts compelling narratives. Ever wonder why the wealthy tend to complain more than others? Or what makes some people naturally contrarian? Tune in to find out!


In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday.


The production team for this episode includes Isabelle Karlsson and PLAN-B's Niklas Figenschau Johansen, Sebastian Langvik-Hansen and Pål Huuse. Background research was conducted by Teodora Cowie.


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0:00.0

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday for the long version.

0:06.5

Tune in on Wednesdays.

0:08.8

Hi, everyone. I'm Nicola Tangan, the CEO of the Norwegian So-Welth Fund.

0:12.7

And today, in good company, we have a tremendous guest, Malcolm Gladwell.

0:17.1

Who has refined the way we think about things like success, intuition, and how ideas spread.

0:23.9

Great to have you here, Malcolm.

0:25.5

Wonderful. Glad to be here.

0:26.6

You, in a way, invented the concept of tipping point.

0:30.0

What type of tipping points are you seeing now?

0:33.3

In the United States, for example, college-age population, the number of kids applying to college is plummeting.

0:42.0

It's one of the most dramatic shifts that we've seen in generations.

0:45.4

And I really think that's important.

0:48.0

And I cannot tell you why it's important.

0:50.7

I don't think we know yet.

0:52.0

But I really do think there's something that's, you know, that could be a good thing.

0:58.5

It could facilitate the introduction of new kinds of kind of cognitive technologies like AI because we simply have a smaller cohort of people who are competing for them.

1:08.0

It dramatically changes the kind of social balance of power within industrialized societies.

1:14.3

If that sector, the population is shrinking, I don't know.

1:17.4

It's just, but it strikes me that we've been living in a world where we have been steadily

1:22.0

expanding the number of college educated people for 150 years.

1:27.4

And that may be coming to an end.

1:29.3

And that's weird.

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