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Brain gain: An existential view of how societies can thrive in a structurally challenged, post-covid world

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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers — The Bomber Mafia, Talking to Strangers, David and Goliath, What the Dog Saw, Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Malcolm has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.

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Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an adventure into the darker side of human nature. This talk explores why humans are so bad at detecting lies - and the consequences this has for our society.

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Malcolm Gladwell on Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Adoption

It can take twenty years or more for a technology to move from invention to wide adoption. Malcolm Gladwell has some ideas on why that's true, and if we can change it.

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Malcolm Gladwell shares his best career advice and why you should always 'have a project’

In this interview with Insider, Malcolm explains why you should always have something that you're pursuing for your own reasons that satisfies you in a different way, that you're the boss of, and that you have control over. 

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