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Published · transcript-backedMalcolm Gladwell: recommendation
15 Mar 2017 Conversations with Tyler Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
“Well, you should delay specialization as long as possible because prediction is poor, and burnout is as big an issue as poor prediction, early prediction.”
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- Malcolm Gladwell
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- 15 Mar 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Let’s say you’re giving advice to the parents and grandparents in the room. You can’t reshape the system, you can’t even control Harvard, but you can tell them what to do for their children. What’s your advice, given all of what you just said? Well, you should delay specialization as long as possible because prediction is poor, and burnout is as big an issue as poor prediction, early prediction. And I would avoid, I think . . . The other parallel problem, which I get at in David and Goliath, is that overly competitive environments at too early an age are really, deeply problematic. I thought about this the other day. I live most of the time upstate in New York, very close to Bard [College]. And I go work out at the Bard gym and I was watching . . . Bard has got, I don’t know, how many students? Is it 2,000? I don’t even know. Some tiny number. And I was watching the Bard lacrosse team work out. And I don’t want to offend anyone who went to Bard. They’re not allowed to say, by the way, if they did. [laughter]…
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