695: Malcolm Gladwell | Imperfect Puzzles and Mismatched Demeanors
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Malcolm Gladwell (@gladwell) has written multiple bestsellers that are probably on your shelf right now, including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and Talking to Strangers. His latest book is The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War.
What We Discuss with Malcolm Gladwell:- Why you're probably worse at detecting when other people are lying to you than you think you are (but at least it's for a good reason).
- We judge people's honesty based on their demeanor, but not everyone's behavior matches what is expected of them -- which often leads to false impressions.
- Why do we trust some institutions and people in authority almost without question, and what happens when that trust is (or is perceived to be) violated?
- How does Malcolm decide what to explore and study for his next book or podcast, and what happens to the ideas that get discarded along the way?
- Why Malcolm finds storytelling that assembles an imperfect puzzle more satisfying than a flawless conclusion.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | You rarely ever know you being lied to in the moment. |
| 0:05.5 | Because you don't have enough evidence yet. |
| 0:07.5 | The most common pathway to figuring out that you've been lied to is that you're lied to eight times. |
| 0:15.5 | And then finally you find that credit card receipt in your partner's wallet. |
| 0:19.5 | And you realize, oh, they absolutely were in Albuquerque when they said they were in Chicago. |
| 0:26.5 | It's not something that you can guess in the moment. It's just not the way that we're wired. |
| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
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| 1:24.5 | Today, boys and girls, we've got Malcolm Gladwell back on the show. |
| 1:28.5 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 1:30.5 | She doesn't love Malcolm Gladwell. Actually, quite a few of you wrote in with criticism last time we spoke to him. |
| 1:35.5 | Criticism that I promised to address next time he came on. Well, I promptly broke that promise today, |
| 1:41.5 | but it doesn't matter because we still had an amazing conversation. In case y'all were not aware, Malcolm is one of the most popular authors in the world. |
| 1:47.5 | He has books we've all read like Blink, the tipping point, outliers, talking to strangers among others. |
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