Malcolm Gladwell: Working From Home Is Destroying Us!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell is an author who across his six bestsellers has sold millions and millions of books, and his podcast Revisionist History is listened to by millions and millions of listeners every week. Malcolm blessed us with his insights on everything on how to deal with regrets to how to keep the memory of our loved ones alive, from America’s mass incarceration crisis to what was Steve Jobs actually good at? Malcolm’s book, The Bomber Mafia, is out now in paperback, and his podcast, Revision History, is currently releasing its seventh season. Follow Malcolm: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/malcolmgladwell/ Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/gladwell Malcolm's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Mafia-Story-Set-War/dp/024153500X Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sorry now I'm getting emotional.
0:02.0	Um...
0:06.0	Malcolm Gladwell.
0:08.0	Author of five New York Times Best Selling Books.
0:11.0	Business guru The Rockstar Journalists.
0:14.0	I just want to explain things to people.
0:17.0	It's not in your best interest to work at home.
0:19.0	If you're just sitting in your pajamas and your bedroom,
0:22.0	is that the work life you want to live?
0:24.1	We want you to have a feeling of belonging and to feel necessary.
0:28.1	And if you're not here, it's really hard to do that.
0:30.8	What have you reduced your life to? The language of happiness has to go alongside
0:36.4	this question of what contribution you're making to the world you live in.
0:40.8	If you could make an amazing contribution to society as you have at the cost of your own happiness,
0:47.5	would you choose that? No, wow. We are social animals.
0:52.6	Casting someone out is the great sin.
0:55.5	It is not conflict that drives people away.
0:58.7	It is neglect.
0:59.9	That's when you do harm.
1:01.9	Sorry now I'm getting emotional.
1:04.0	Um, it's very, I don't know, sorry.
1:09.0	If we don't feel like we're part of something important, what's the point?
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