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Malcolm Gladwell

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[00:00:00] I'm Lee C. Camp and this is No Small Endeavor, exploring what it means to live a good life.

You're probably familiar with the work of Malcolm Gladwell. Perhaps you've read one of his New York Times best selling books like The Tipping Point or Outliers. Or maybe you listened to Malcolm's podcast Revisionist History.

But how well do you know the man himself?

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There was a period in my life where I spent a huge amount of time in Freudian therapy.

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Today, we learn what made Malcolm Malcolm - like what pushed him to get really good at explaining things.

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My father and my brothers were incapable of explaining things.

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Or how his dad influenced his curiosity.

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My whole childhood was spent listening to my father meet random strangers and him asking them questions. He had no insecurities about declaring himself ignorant in an area.

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All coming right up.[00:01:00]

I'm Lee C. Camp. This is No Small Endeavor, exploring what it means to live a good life.

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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963 to a Jamaican mother and an English father. When he was 6, his family moved from England to Canada. He was a successful runner in high school, and his childhood was largely intellectually stimulating: his father was a mathematician, his mother was a psychotherapist and author, and Gladwell developed an interest in the world of literature at a young age. He earned an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1984.

Gladwell's experience in journalism dates back to the summer of 1982, when he interned at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. Gladwell said that his academic record was not strong enough to allow him entrance into graduate school, so he initially sought a career in advertising – which did not suit his talents. Gladwell began his career in professional journalism by writing for The American Spectator in Indiana. He later wrote for the Washington Post and The New Yorker, where he has published articles si

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Malcolm Gladwell on "Revenge of the Tipping Point"

On Tuesday, a new Malcolm Gladwell book comes out. And if history is any guide, it will be a bestseller. "They're stories about ideas," he said. "They have characters. They have plots. I'm usually trying to say something about the world."

His first book, "The Tipping Point," published in 2000, established the Gladwell recipe: he explores a theme through anecdotes and little-known scientific studies. "'Tipping Point' was about the epidemic as an incredibly useful way of understanding how ideas move through society," Gladwell said. "And epidemics have rules. Let's learn the rules, right?"

His seven New York Timesbestsellers have sold 23 million copies in North America alone. His fee for corporate speeches is $350,000. His fans have downloaded a quarter-billion episodes of his podcast, "Revisionist History," and he founded a company called Pushkin Industries to produce it.

In other words, Gladwell has come a long way from the small Canadian town where he grew up, son of a British father and a Jamaican mother,