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

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways We have enormous confidence when it comes to drawing meaningful conclusions about people we know very little aboutWhen it comes to job interviews, employers often place too much weight on meeting candidates in-personYou should hire people based on their abilities and skills, not their physical presence  Writing a book is 20% writing and 80% organization/reflection“It takes a long time to figure out how to express what you think and it takes a long time to figure out what you think”No higher order can proceed without the presumption of trustIf you don’t have trust, you can’t put your child on a school busIf you’re going to trade stocks, you have to trust the financial system

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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.

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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