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Bonus: A Debate with Malcolm Gladwell

Worklife with Adam Grant

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Are You Ready for Your First Stand Up Performance?

With comedians, think as a comedian, you have to understand not only what will make people laugh, but also what's on right on the edge of making people uncomfortable. And sright, i think comedians are master psychologists. I cannot imagine a better set of circumstances for navigating a social situation than those. So if that's true, when are you ready for your first stand up performance? It's not even close. By the way, stand up camudians do that drives me crazy is that they like to pretend that their profession is this terrifying, death defying, you know, high wire act. That is about as far as you can get from a roomful of first graders

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