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Sep 10, 2019 · Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God...
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jan 7, 2021 · Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know. By Malcolm Gladwell, 2019 (Boston, Little Brown and Company) Book Review; Published: 07 January 2021; Volume 5, pages 67–75, (2021) Cite this article
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Sep 10, 2019 · Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our...
Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.
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- Malcolm Gladwell
Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences. No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell.
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- Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know. Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, 2019), 388 pp. Reviewed by Dr. Bowman H. Miller, PhD. king to Strangers in anticipation of another thought-provoking treatise for generalists from this widely acclaimed thinker. Litt.
He discusses the limitations of human perception of other humans, how we decide on a stranger’s character and how wrong it can be, with dire consequences. Historical examples are quoted, including several interactions between British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, where no alarm bells were triggered.
