Malcolm Gladwell on: Working From Home, Kindness, Sacrifice, and Making Mistakes

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this previously released episode, Malcolm Gladwell responds to backlash he received over his belief that working in an office—and the collaborative creative environment it can offer—is in your best interest (and in the interest of others). We also dive deep into some of the important themes featured in the seventh season of his podcast Revisionist History, including: kindness, generosity, and sacrifice. And, Dan and Gladwell share their biggest mistakes as journalists.

Malcolm Gladwell is the president and co-founder of 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 new Pushkin podcast Legacy of Speed.

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
His biggest journalistic mistake

Content Warning: Brief mention of eating disorders.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:05.1	I'm Dan Harris.
0:11.6	Hey gang, today we have what we in the journalism business call a big get.
0:17.0	It's Malcolm Gladwell, author of six New York Times best sellers, including the tipping point,
0:21.6	Blink and Outliers.
0:23.5	He's also host of the massively popular revisionist history podcast and host of a new podcast
0:29.9	called the Legacy of Speed, which we'll talk about in this interview.
0:34.3	I should say he's also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, which produces all kinds of great
0:39.2	podcasts.
0:40.6	I wanted to have him on the show to talk about some of the issues he's been addressing
0:43.9	on his podcasts of late, including kindness, generosity and self-sacrifice.
0:49.5	And we do, in fact, talk to him about all of the above.
0:53.4	But our interview happened to fall on a day when Gladwell was at the center of a tabloid
0:57.9	slash Twitter dust up over some comments he recently made about working from home, which
1:04.6	he said, and I'm quoting here, is not in your best interest.
1:09.2	There has been, as you might imagine, quite a backlash against that comment.
1:13.8	And in this interview, you will hear Gladwell respond at length.
1:19.0	We also talk about the importance of flow states, how he personally relaxes his favorite
1:24.0	hack for improving his daily life, why he thinks everybody should have a lifelong practice
1:29.2	or pursuit is his running, why writing and reading about other people is such an important
1:35.3	human act, what he thinks now about his famous 10,000 hours argument, and what he says
1:42.3	may be one of his biggest journalistic mistakes.
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