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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A comprehensive summary of Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell.
Talking to Strangers is nothing short of powerful, insightful, and highly revelatory. Behind many happenings and events lay theories to support claims and opinions put forward...
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Short on time? Or maybe you've already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know!
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People...
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"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 classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits...
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2020
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...