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Malcolm Gladwell Questions Everything

ReThinking

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What's the Difference Between Optimistic and Typical?

"I was thinking about aggregating somebody who's good at improv night after night, right? Wait, so the alsos are interesting about hiring people. So you're right, the job interview is measuring optimal, when many cases were interested in typical," he says. "So how would you change hiring for your department of pen, if you were interested in Typical?" He adds: "Is that optimal, not typical? Probably."

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