Malcolm Gladwell Questions Everything
ReThinking
TED
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
For our final episode of the year, let’s revisit Adam and Malcolm’s conversation from the archive.
When Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell sit down to challenge each other, everything is fair game. Sit ringside for this collegial cage match in which two preeminent writers rethink each other's ideas in an insatiable quest to get closer to the truth. Is intelligence undersold or oversold? Does individual blaming and shaming obscure the pursuit of real change on racism? Could rethinking everything lead not only to a better business but a better life? In pursuit of answers, Grant and Gladwell agree on this much: you shouldn't believe everything you think. Find the transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript4
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| 2:07.5 | Thank you. smells of pickles. Thanks, Canber. I'm Adam Grant, and this is taken for granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. |
| 2:12.8 | I'm an organizational psychologist, and my job is to rethink how we work, lead, and live. |
| 2:18.3 | My guest today is familiar to listeners of work life, actually to pretty much anyone who listens to podcasts or reads books, Malcolm Gladwell. |
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