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

Mar 15, 2017

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The Black Critique of Brown Starts With Psychological Research

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How to Break Out of Bad Intellectual Habits

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Introduction

3min

Who's Malcolm Gladwell?

2min

Do You Have a Natural Story Teller?

2min

How to Tell a Story From Your Life

2min

Are You White?

2min

The Difference Between West Indian and American Black Culture

2min

What I've Learned From a Jamaican Poet

2min

The Black Jamaica Is Not a Powerless Minority

2min

The Jewish Moment in Sport Is Not Unusual, Right?

1min

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What's Your Take on the Warren Court?

2min

11.

The Black Critique of Brown Starts With Psychological Research

2min

12.

The Warren Court Picks the Wrong Research

1min

13.

Is It You, That's the Problem?

2min

14.

Higher Education, It's One of Your Passions in Life

2min

15.

The Endowment Attached to Dunbart Oakes

2min

16.

Why Aren't They Bringing In?

2min

17.

Rosenwald Fund

2min

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Are You Really World Class at Harvard?

2min

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I'm Getting the True Scholars, Right?

1min

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How Do You Treat the Faculty?

2min

21.

Do You Think You're Overspezializing Too Soon?

1min

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The Best Preparation for Something Over Here When You're Very Young

2min

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Are You Overly Competitive Environments Too Early?

2min

24.

Bard - Is There Exclusivity or Opportunity?

2min

25.

The World Cannot Be Explored at a Superl University Write

2min

26.

What Are You Not Doing Enough Of?

1min

27.

Long Distance Runners Are Not Doing Correctly

2min

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Distance Running Power - Is Japan a Distance Runner?

2min

29.

The Most Underrated Figure in Popular Music Past Present

2min

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The Jewish Immigrant Experience in America

2min

31.

What's the Most Underrated John Lacare Novel?

2min

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Are Lacare Novels Gladwellian in Their World of You?

2min

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What's Your Favorite Non Current Movie?

2min

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Do You Still Need More Adventure Celebrities?

2min

35.

Washington, DC

2min

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New York City

2min

37.

The One Problem I Have as a Writer Is That I'm Old

2min

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How to Break Out of Bad Intellectual Habits

2min

39.

I'm an Athlete and I've Changed My Mind Six, Seven Times.

2min

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The Effective Medium for Social Commentary

2min

41.

Anddaw So Wouth, the Spicer Mpersonation

2min

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The Problem With Saturnight Live Is They're Not Insanivized to Do That Kind of Deep Thinking

2min

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The Panting Papers Controversy

2min

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The Pentagon Papers Controversy

2min

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What a Great Year of the Great Story

2min

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Is It the Last Act in Aa in Ana, an Intellectual Era?

2min

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How to Discover Talent Within Yourself and Others

2min

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Is There a Base for Running Talent?

2min

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How to Identify Students in Education and Small Business Formation

2min

50.

Are You Self Employed?

2min

51.

Are You a Riskoverse Person?

2min

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Is It Any Different?

2min

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The Backlash to the Brown Decision

2min

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What's Going on Now in American Life?

2min

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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