Malcolm Gladwell: Contrarian Thinking, Social Change and Why CEOs Should Be Boring

Hi everyone, I'm Nikola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Soban Wealth Fund, and today in good company we have a tremendous guest, Malcolm Gladwell, who has refined the way we think about things like success, intuition and how ideas spread. Great to have you here, Malcolm. Wonderful, glad to be here. Um, Malcolm, what are the most important things which have changed in society over the last 25 years? Oh wow.

Uh I would turn the question on its head and which is, I think we spend a lot of time talking about the things that change and too little time talking about things that haven't changed. I'm always im you know, th we've seen this sort of advent of this avalanche of new technology. And um I'm always deeply impressed by how little technology changes the way we function as human beings. We seem to be

And how we're always left at the end of the day with some fairly difficult and intractable human problems. While technology sails ahead and deals with ever more sophisticated problems, you know, it it's it always comes back to the same thing, which is can we, can human beings find a way to cooperate with each other in an efficient and um functional way? And that's been the problem for thousands of years, and it doesn't seem to get any easier despite the fact that we're surrounded with ever more sophisticated tools for trying to make that happen. And why is that?

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