Malcolm Gladwell Experiments with Adam's Class

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re sharing a special episode from one of Adam's favorite podcasts, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm is obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. And in this episode, Adam Grant got to help out. Malcolm wanted to talk with a group of college seniors or recent graduates. So Adam invited him to a special seminar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Adam’s students become guinea pigs as Malcom tries to help them identify and then discuss a very specific type of privilege, a category of privilege that’s often ignored. If you know Malcolm Gladwell, he does sometimes seem to have it out for Ivy League schools like Penn. But this episode is not what you might expect: Malcolm winds up pointing the finger of blame quite firmly in his own direction, too.

You can hear more from Revisionist History at
https://link.chtbl.com/workliferevisionist

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0:00.0	Did you know that some people can taste color or that others simply can't recognize faces?
0:08.0	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta and this season on Chasing Life we're exploring sensory perception.
0:14.2	Discover how psychedelics can change your worldview.
0:17.6	Why animals perceive differently than humans and how taste bias affects food production
0:23.2	around the world.
0:24.8	Listen to Chasing Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio or your favorite podcast app.
0:31.8	Hey worklifers, I'm excited to share a special episode from one of the only podcasts I never
0:38.4	missed.
0:39.4	Revisionist history, with my friend and mental sparring partner Malcolm Gladwell.
0:44.2	In each episode Malcolm takes a look at something we all think we know and then turns our
0:48.7	thinking upside down.
0:50.9	This season Malcolm is exploring one of my favorite questions.
0:54.2	How can we learn to think more like scientists?
0:56.9	He's obsessed with experiments.
0:58.5	And in the episode you're about to hear, he asked for my help rounding up a group of
1:02.4	college seniors as guinea pigs.
1:05.0	He came to Wharton to see if students could identify a source of privilege that we often
1:09.4	ignore.
1:11.0	Every time Malcolm visits us, he has a new critique of Ivy League schools.
1:15.6	But this time he winds up pointing the finger at himself too.
1:20.3	Lessons are learned.
1:21.3	Hi, Jinksons too, and he finds himself rethinking one of his big ideas from outliers.
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