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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Talk Easy Throwback: Malcolm Gladwell

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

A throwback to one of my favourite episodes, with Malcom Gladwell... Malcolm Gladwell is a writer best known for his books Blink, The Tipping Point, and David and Goliath. While what he writes about can at points stir up controversy for oversimplification and grandiosity, Gladwell has an infectious curiosity about our world that is far greater than his flaws. On the heels of season 2 (now season 4) of Revisionist History, Malcolm and Sam not only discuss this curiosity, but also their affinity for flip-flopping, how ideas can be fun, the danger of David becoming Goliath, and why, at 53, Malcolm has no fear of failure.


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Pushkin If you are willing to wake up in the morning and you're reasonably nice and you live in the

0:22.0

developed world.

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The world is set up for you.

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Like you can't, it's just really hard to fail.

0:29.0

So my position has always been, look, I'm not, it's not,

0:31.0

I'm not gonna fail, it's fine.. I mean I'll like, bigger away. And, you know, knock on

0:38.1

wood so far, things have worked out pretty well. So I don't, I'm not not feel I feel like what prevents people from

0:44.5

sometimes sometimes doing interesting things is they have an anxiety about

0:48.7

stepping outside of a narrow definition of what they're good at. I don't.

0:57.0

That was Malcolm Gladwell. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy.

1:05.0

Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone this is Sam and I just wanted to do some housekeeping at the top

1:39.5

before we listen to Malcolm Gladwell.

1:47.0

We are on a kind of hiatus here for the next five weeks. We'll be returning on August 25th with the wonderful Whitney Cummings,

1:52.0

but until then for the next five weeks, with the wonderful Whitney Cummings.

1:53.0

But until then, for the next five weeks, we are not going to go away.

1:57.0

We are going to re-release some of my favorite conversations that we've had on this podcast over the past three years.

2:07.0

Those of you who've been listening from the beginning have probably heard all of these,

2:12.0

but we've been finding that a great deal of our new listeners

2:16.2

have not experienced our back catalog, all of which is for free and can be streamed and downloaded on Spotify, iTunes, Sound Cloud, Stitcher,

2:28.0

wherever you're getting your podcasts.

2:30.0

But since we are in the throes of summer and people are out of town on vacation, their kids are at home all day, every day,

2:40.0

I know it is a time where people have less time and quite frankly in the interest of transparency

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