How to Break Out of Bad Intellectual Habits

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I worry that in so far as one is intellectually flexible on any particular thing, it becomes a way of protecting some broader and more hidden edifice. That there's a kind of kind of oddly hidden desperation or even pessimism, embedded in certain kind of flexibilities. And i worry in my own writing, when i try to do this, that in some ways it's a deeper dogmatism than erecting the highly dogmatic structure,. Do you see what i'm saying? We're at the point in the conversation where you reveal yourself to be much smarter than i im i.

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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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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