i was, at the age of 13, the fastest miler fom my age in canada. I by 21, i was useless and washed up and nolonger. The best preparation for something over here when you're very young may be something over here. There are extremely valuable things about basketball that are most usefully learned on a sacrapitch when you'revery young. And then the thing is that we do a really bad job of spotting early talent, simply because you can't spot it.
Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”
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