Revenge of the Tipping Point with Malcolm Gladwell

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What causes certain ideas to catch fire while others fizzle out? Malcolm Gladwell dives into this mystery, reexamining key themes from his groundbreaking book The Tipping Point. In his latest work, Revenge of the Tipping Point, he looks at how ideas spread today, focusing on issues like Medicare fraud in Miami and the dangers of parents pushing high school students all toward the same goal. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends. Thanks for joining me today. My guest is the one and only Malcolm
0:09.2	Galadwell. Malcolm is revisiting one of his most important and popular works, The Tipping Point.
0:17.9	He has a new book out called Revenge of the Tipping Point, and I think you're going to really enjoy this conversation so let's dive in.
0:26.9	I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.
0:32.4	I'm really excited to be joined by Malcolm Gladwell. Thanks for being here today.
0:36.0	My pleasure.
0:37.0	Revenge of the tipping point.
0:39.0	First of all, the tipping point became like a cultural phenomenon.
0:44.0	Were you prepared for the impact that conceiving of something called a tipping point was going
0:49.3	to have?
0:50.3	Was that on your radar?
0:51.3	No.
0:52.3	I mean, I guess? No. I mean.
0:53.4	Yes it was. I was prepared.
0:56.0	Yeah, it's impossible to say yes to answer to that question.
1:00.8	But no, I would put myself in the ranks of the shocked it took a little while to become a successful book so yeah it wasn't like it was this big bang out of the gate
1:10.0	It sort of built over time even after I published published it, I thought, oh, you know,
1:13.2	kind of had a nice little modest run,
1:15.6	and I thought, oh, that's it.
1:17.1	And then it kept going.
1:18.4	It became a reflection of the very phenomenon it was describing,
1:21.5	which was something that becomes contagious and
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