Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong--now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How...show more
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While Gladwell makes some interesting points and connections which deserve attention and action particularly in policing, I think he has too much sympathy for the devil in general. There is no mention for example of how police feel they deserve complete respect or to what extent they feel comfortable abusing their (basically unlimited power). Furthermore, there is no discussion about how racism, both conscious and subconscious, causes white peopl...read more
It’s probably a 3.5 really. I listened to it as an audiobook and I enjoyed it but I didn’t retain a whole lot of info about it. All in all - key take away - Strangers are hard to decipher.
And we have a whole lot of pre coding in us which makes it more difficult to truly understand someone else and what their intentions are. We default to truth, we assume that people’s facial expressions reveal what they mean (we in fact don’t operate like a Frie...read more
And we have a whole lot of pre coding in us which makes it more difficult to truly understand someone else and what their intentions are. We default to truth, we assume that people’s facial expressions reveal what they mean (we in fact don’t operate like a Frie...read more
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