Malcolm Gladwell on the importance of self-correction

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell joins Adam for a lively discussion and debate, recorded live at the Authors@Wharton series. More than 20 years after releasing his blockbuster book The Tipping Point, Malcolm has decided to rethink his first famous ideas by writing his new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point. He and Adam riff on the value of acknowledging our past mistakes, strategies for coping with failure and ways to avoid the traps of homogeneous cultures. They also spar about how to change college admissions and when to stop reading a book.

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0:00.0	TED Audio Collective.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:11.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick with the TED Audio Collective.
0:16.0	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:20.8	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:26.8	You've asked for more spirited conversations with Malcolm Gladwell, so we've answered.
0:31.8	I hosted him for a live author's at Wharton event.
0:34.7	The occasion was his new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point.
0:38.4	It's a rethinking of his first big idea, a quarter century later.
0:42.4	I have never understood why people perceive changing your mind as being costly.
0:46.9	And it sparked big questions for me about building healthy cultures, fixing college
0:51.2	admissions, and handling mistakes and failures.
0:54.6	The fastest way to make something go away is just to say it was wrong.
0:58.3	Just the easiest strategy in the world.
1:00.7	What's wrong?
1:01.7	We also riff on topics ranging from when to stop reading a book
1:05.0	to how to stop basing self-esteem on success.
1:08.7	You're in for a treat.
1:13.6	Malcolm Gladwell, we meet again.
1:14.6	Hi Adam. I have some beef with you.
1:16.6	Okay. Let's go.
1:18.6	A lot of it, which is why I'm very glad that you're back again to do this.
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