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Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)

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Distance Running Power - Is Japan a Distance Runner?

Japan does not have any one runner ticalyan marathons. But they have an enormous number of people who are in the top hundred. It's purely arbitrary that we choose to define greatest as just the country that most densely occupies the 90 ninth per centile. Why is that better than having a, a 300 at the top thousand? Right?

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