Malcolm Gladwell on the importance of self-correction
ReThinking
TED
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Malcolm Gladwell joins Adam for a lively discussion and debate, recorded live at the Authors@Wharton series. More than 20 years after releasing his blockbuster book The Tipping Point, Malcolm has decided to rethink his first famous ideas by writing his new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point. He and Adam riff on the value of acknowledging our past mistakes, strategies for coping with failure and ways to avoid the traps of homogeneous cultures. They also spar about how to change college admissions and when to stop reading a book.
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| 0:00.0 | Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery. |
| 0:05.0 | Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming. |
| 0:10.0 | Nobody actually knew it existed. |
| 0:13.0 | But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan. |
| 0:18.0 | It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too. |
| 0:23.7 | And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber. Michael Lewis here. |
| 0:32.6 | My bestselling book The Big Short tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S. housing market back in 2008. |
| 0:40.3 | A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. |
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| 1:01.6 | audiobooks or wherever audio books are sold. |
| 1:12.5 | Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. |
| 1:18.2 | Welcome back to rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick with the TED Audio Collective. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. |
| 1:32.2 | You've asked for more spirited conversations with Malcolm Gladwell, |
| 1:33.4 | so we've answered. |
| 1:36.2 | I hosted him for a live authors at Wharton event. |
| 1:39.9 | The occasion was his new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point. |
| 1:44.2 | It's a rethinking of his first big idea, a quarter century later. I have never understood why people perceive changing your mind as being costly. |
| 1:49.2 | And it sparked big questions for me about building healthy cultures, fixing college |
| 1:53.4 | admissions, and handling mistakes and failures. |
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