Malcolm Gladwell is Experimenting on Revisionist History

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Sharing a preview of the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm is obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. This month, you'll hear a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers a mea culpa for an unintended consequence of his book Outliers.

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0:00.0	This fall on revisionist history.
0:11.0	Is there anything that we haven't talked about or that I should have asked you or would
0:16.0	you like to add that seems relevant?
0:20.0	You should have asked me why I'm missing fingers on my left hand.
0:25.0	A story about sacrifice.
0:30.0	I think his suffering drove him to try to alleviate suffering.
0:39.0	And the shocking discovery I made where I faced the consequences of writing a book I thought
0:45.0	would help people.
0:46.0	Isn't that funny?
0:48.0	It's not funny at all.
0:49.0	It's depressing.
0:50.0	Very depressing.
0:52.0	Revisionist history is back with more.
0:56.0	Listen to revisionist history on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.0	I've never seen less enthusiasm for a great idea in my life.

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