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15 Mar 2017

It’s funny — she’s not unusual in this. This is why I always urge people to sit down with their parents while their parents are still with them, and turn on the tape recorder and force them to tell stories because surprising numbers of people don’t — unless they’re forced to, unless it’s a deliberate act — don’t tell the stories from their life that are meaningful.

“It’s funny — she’s not unusual in this. This is why I always urge people to sit down with their parents while their parents are still with them, and turn on the tape recorder and force them to tell stories because surprising numbers of people don’t — unless they’re forced to, unless it’s a deliberate act — don’t tell the stories from their life that are meaningful.”

Speaker: Malcolm Gladwell
Episode: Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Malcolm Gladwell

What Malcolm 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.