Thinking Twice: Revenge of the Tipping Point with Malcolm Gladwell

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In 2000, New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell released the groundbreaking book “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”, which explored how small ideas can create lasting changes in everyday life through social engineering and the “tipping points” phenomenon. Two decades after the book’s original publication and in the spirit of an organizational mission that values a second look at seminal ideas, we speak with Gladwell about what he has learned and, in some cases, reconsidered. In this conversation with Open to Debate guest moderator Nayeema Raza, Gladwell discusses his sequel “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering”, which looks at the darker side of social epidemics, what he thinks might have been wrong with some of his original theories, and how such thought evolution is a sign of growth. Our Guest: Malcolm Gladwell, Bestselling Author; Co-Founder of Pushkin Industries Nayeema Raza, Journalist and Co-Host of the Semafor Podcast “Mixed Signals”, is the guest moderator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.5	Hey everybody. I'm John Donvette, open to debates moderator in chief.
0:40.9	We usually bring you rigorous debates on a wide range of topics, but as many of you know,
0:45.7	every once in a while, we'll offer an episode that isn't a debate, per se, but is actually aligned
0:51.0	with one of our core themes, which is about what it means to be open-minded.
0:55.0	So in this case, we're bringing you a conversation with somebody who is open to re-examining his
0:59.9	own ideas. Today, we have Malcolm Gladwell on the show, sitting down with one of our regular
1:04.7	guest moderators, Naima Reza. Naima, it's all yours.
1:08.3	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Open to Debate.
1:15.4	I'm Naima Raza, and today I'll be in conversation with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about his latest book, Revenge of the Tipping Point.
1:19.1	It's something between a sequel and a revisitation of Gladwell's first book written 25 years
1:24.0	ago, entitled The Tipping Point.
1:26.8	That original was about how little things make a big
1:29.3	difference, how they gain critical mass and tip to spread like wildfire across the culture.
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