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Malcolm Gladwell Questions Everything

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Is It Easier to Change a Structure Than to Change Interpersonal Attitudes?

We explain behavior in terms of people's individual motivations and values. We're horrible at seeing the collective forces that affect all of us, he says. The idea that I might be able to get an individual person to be less racist or less sexist feels a little bit more palatable than structural solutions. But isn't the truth the opposite? It's actually easier to change structural things than it is to change interpersonal attitudes?

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