Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 62K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Malcolm talks with WorkLife’s Adam Grant about how to avoid doing highly undesirable tasks, what makes an idea interesting, and why Malcolm thinks we shouldn't root for the underdog.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:12.0	Did you miss me?
0:14.2	Did you want to hear my voice?
0:21.8	Hello, hello fellow revisionist historians.
0:24.7	This is Malcolm Glaubel.
0:26.2	Season 3 is almost ready to go.
0:29.0	We are this close and as a reward for your patience, I thought I'd give you a little
0:34.9	gift.
0:35.9	It's a live conversation I did with my friend Adam Grant at the 92nd Street Y in New
0:40.2	York City a few weeks ago.
0:42.1	We've done this before at the Y. When his last book came out, I interviewed him there
0:46.3	on stage and now he wanted to interview me.
0:50.1	Which is daunting because Adam is a very big deal.
0:53.3	Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, he's written best sellers like
0:57.3	give and take, originals and an option B with Cheryl Sandberg.
1:01.1	It's a winner of all kinds of awards.
1:03.0	He's the kind of person who if you email him some question, he'll write you back in
1:07.8	like two minutes with this brilliantly thought out dissertation.
1:11.1	And you think, how did he do that?
1:13.6	Oh and in the side, Adam and I still use a blackberry.
1:17.2	I know, I know.
1:18.4	And since we both get a lot of grief for that, we have explanatory signature lines under
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