Malcolm Gladwell on What We Get Wrong About Guns
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I'm Caleb Bissinger, and I'm Rufus Griscom. And this is the next big idea. Today Malcolm Gladwell on Why Americans keep shooting each other and what we can do about it. Malcolm Gladwell plays Jenga.
With conventional wisdom. He pulls out one assumption, then another. Until the whole thing just comes crashing down. For example, twenty five years ago. We assumed that big changes required big pushes.
But then Malcolm published the tipping point and he showed that tiny shifts can tip a whole culture, a whole society in a new direction. We used to trust careful analysis over gut instinct. But then in Blink, Malcolm made the case that our snap judgments Are often pretty smart. We thought that great success came down to talent.
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