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Today on Super Soul Sunday, he's been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. Journalist, podcaster, and author of five New York Times best selling books, Malcolm Gladwell.

As a columnist for the New Yorker and hosted the popular podcast, Revisionist History, Malcolm challenges us to look at life from a different perspective.

We first met on the Oprah Show to discuss his book, Blink, which became a global phenomenon selling nearly six million copies.

It's been translated into more than 25 languages.

In a time when division, tension, and anger seem to pervade our daily lives, Malcolm Gladwell once again invites us to turn the world onto its side and take a closer look at what's really going on.

In his gripping new book, talking to strangers what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm puts forth the theory that too often we make dramatic, often dangerous assumptions about people we don't know.

Through well-known cases like the Bernie Madoff scandal and the Amanda Knox trial, the Jerry Sandusky abuse trial, and the racially charged arrest and death of Sandra Blan, Malcolm Gladwell examines his belief that many of us unconsciously invite us to the world.

We unconsciously invite conflict and misunderstanding into our own lives.

I have to tell you, I love this book. This is my favorite of all the books except tipping point, Blink, David and Goliath.

But this is, I think, some of your most profound work.

Oh, thank you.

And particularly for a time such as this that we're living in, and everybody thinks the world is topsy-turvy, and you have a way of throwing over the rocks and letting us see underneath and allowing us to actually see that things are not always as they seem.

And now you have so many imitators that they're called the gladwellian imitators. How does that feel?

You might have a few yourself. I don't think of them as imitators.

I think, no.

By that, I mean you've created an entirely new genre of books.

I always thought I was joining them. A movement is opposed to leading a movement. I sort of felt like I was doing what journalists and academics have always tried to do, which is to give us the means to look at familiar problems in a new way.

So I was always odd to think of yourself as being someone who started something. I think that's a little, I'll let others say that.

Okay, I'm saying you started something.

All right, I'll accept it.

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