Malcolm Gladwell

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, author, and speaker, best known for digging into the quirks of human behavior and the hidden forces behind everyday life. He is the bestselling author of eight books, including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and his latest release, Revenge of the Tipping Point, which explore everything from snap judgments to why some people succeed more than others. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Gladwell now brings his curiosity to audio with his podcast Revisionist History, where he reexamines ideas, people, and events that he thinks deserve a second look. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetragrammaton I never reread anything that I've written or re-listen to any podcast I do.
0:31.0	I don't know whether that.
0:31.8	I never know whether that's unusual.
0:34.8	You know, it's different.
0:36.2	If you, in the world of music,
0:38.7	you know, people return constantly to the music
0:41.5	they've already made, right?
0:42.7	They have to live with the feeling of
0:45.8	playing the same song over and over and over again.
0:48.9	We have the option of doing the opposite in writing.
0:51.2	Yeah.
0:51.5	Of completely ignoring everything.
0:53.6	So I've been in that ignoring world.
0:56.2	And I literally had forgotten about many of the things I wrote.
1:01.2	And it was so long ago, I realized 25 years is a really long time.
1:08.2	I wrote the first tipping point when I was in my 30s, which seems an incredibly long time. I wrote the first tipping point when I was in my 30s, which seems an incredibly
1:14.5	long time ago now. And suddenly I was, you know, transported back to the apartment I was living in,
1:22.6	to the, you know, clothes I was wearing, the music I was listening to, you know, like, I don't remember the call letters,
1:29.7	but there was this radio station in New Jersey, which paid a lot of alternative rock. It was the only
1:36.2	radio station I could find that sort of made me happy. I remember I would listen to it in the background
1:41.4	as I worked on my book, and I still have, like, that's the
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