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

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

How to Break Out of Bad Intellectual Habits

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.

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