Deep Cuts: Malcolm Gladwell

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Gladwell On: the importance of flow states, why people should have a lifelong pursuit or practice, and how he personally relaxes.

Malcolm Gladwell is the president and co-founder of the podcasting network Pushkin Industries, and the author of six New York Times bestselling books including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He's also the host of the Pushkin podcast Revisionist History.

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In this episode we talk about:

The backlash Malcolm faced from his work from home comments
Pushing the noise aside when it comes to social media
Lessons in kindness from a recent Revisionist History episode
The importance of flow states
How he personally relaxes
Why people should have a lifelong pursuit or practice
What he thinks now about his famous 10,000 hours argument
Why we need to engage and investigate the views of others to be morally alert as human beings
And his biggest journalistic mistake

Content Warning: Brief mention of eating disorders.

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0:00.0	It's the 10% happier podcast, I'm Dan Harris.
0:11.7	Hello, my fellow suffering beings, today we have what we in the journalism business
0:24.1	call a big get.
0:26.3	It's Malcolm Gladwell, author of six New York Times bestsellers, including the tipping
0:30.0	point, blink and outliers and host of such hit podcasts as revisionist history and legacy
0:35.9	of speed.
0:37.4	We originally wanted to have Malcolm on to talk about some of the issues he's been addressing
0:42.0	on his podcasts of late, including kindness, generosity and sacrifice.
0:47.3	But this interview happened to fall on a day when Malcolm was at the center of a tabloid
0:52.9	slash Twitter dust up over some comments.
0:55.8	He had made about working from home, which he said, and I'm quoting here, is not in your
1:00.3	best interest.
1:01.6	Some people did not like that.
1:02.6	There was quite a backlash.
1:04.4	And in this interview, you're going to hear Malcolm respond at length.
1:08.5	This episode is part of deep cuts, a new feature where you, the listener, get to choose your
1:13.2	favorite TPH episode from the archives.
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