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256: Malcolm Gladwell | What We Should Know about Talking to Strangers

The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode • Sep 26, 2019 • 54m

Malcolm Gladwell (@gladwell) has written bestsellers that are probably on your shelf right now, including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. His latest book is Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know.

What We Discuss with Malcolm Gladwell:
  • Why, if we don't know how to talk to strangers, we invite conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.
  • Why the information we gather from face-to-face human interaction isn't as uniquely valuable as we think it is.
  • Why television makes us worse at reading other people.
  • Why we think we can tell if someone is lying, guilty, or deceptive -- and why we're almost always wrong.
  • What determines the direction of Malcolm's projects, and how he researches and organizes the massive amount of information that goes into them.
  • And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/256

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