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Special Guest Malcolm Gladwell

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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Is It Serendipitous Success or Calculated Ambition?

Malcolm Gladwell: You come from a Mennonite community devoted to service and reconciliation. And you write about how we sometimes overlook how liberating it is when culture abandons the aggressive pursuit of status markers. I wonder if the way that you were brought up, where it seems that modesty was the importance value and competitiveness not so much, does that help? Does that push you forward or rather the other way around? He says he didn't set out to be successful; his success has been "not inadvertent," but serendipitous.

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