Talking To Strangers- What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

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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 did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and the death of Sandra Bland throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know, and the resulting conflict and misunderstanding have a profound effect on our lives and our world. Now, with Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell brings us a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Dimensions- 5. 4" W x 8" H x 1. 2" D
    • Genre- Psychology
    • Publisher- Little, Brown and Company, Publication date- 09-28-2021
    • Page count- 416
    • ISBN- 9780316299220

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9 months ago

A Long Read For Naught

Just finished wading through nearly 400 pages of this door-stopper - exhausted and disappointed with very little to show for the effort. I have greatly enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s writing style and insights over the years. This book, however, was a real disappointment. Not because it wasn’t entertaining; it was. But because I was hoping to come away with some worthwhile , if not profound, new insights about how one could/should engage people we don’t know well, if at all, in reflective thought and conversation. Regrettably, this book is a windy dissertation on case studies by Gladwell, only to conclude with the most simplistic of observations; e.g., 1) stop and think before you act, 2) don’t jump to conclusions, and 3) don’t default to giving the speaker the benefit of the doubt. There, I just saved you from reading several hundred pages. Try another one of his books but don’t waste your money or your time on this one.

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3 years ago
from LA,CA

Just Love This Book

For anyone that yearns for creativity, here we have structure and beauty.

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4 years ago
from Los Angeles CA

So many eye opening stories about human nature!

This book was fascinating to me... the way Gladwell researches all of these seemingly unrelated and powerful stories, and finds the correlation in them all to teach us a lesson about human nature. Each story is so compelling on its own... then when you combine them to understand the flaws in our ability to read strangers regardless of training, it's this major "wow" moment. And it's really the perfect intro to the right way of look at policing that is empathetic to both minorities in high crime areas and law enforcement.

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