Good evening and welcome, both newcomers and repeat offenders, if you look around here, you notice the great many ponderous and intangible books out there in the world. That being the case, its always refreshing to find whose impact in the portion to the Tipping Point is one of those books, from time to time, usually its quite unexpected, work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain, one strong spray with a passages to clean up, suddenly we can finally grasp things around us that weve always been looking at, we drop the enter gp and more sharply, it can be rather intoxicating, once again this is that kind of book. One of the delights i find of the Tipping Point is that malcolm asked the kind of question that a child might ask, the kind of question that is on the tip of her brain like the name on the tip of the tongue. Often we find it hard to focus on, not despite a bit but because of it. In the question he asks to hear is that one once weve heard asked, why didnt anybody thi
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Despite having written a book called blink the power of thinking without thinking i think one of the beauties of Malcolm Gladwells works is that he makes you think. His work uncovers truths hidden in strange data and as a marketer and a philosophy major, things that are strange and uncovering hidden truths are really something dear to my heart and what another reason why i like malcolmgladwell. His Academic Research and critical analysis and fascinating style provides astonishing and useful insights about our world and our place in it. His bestselling books travel avenues of science, reason and anecdote and include the Tipping Point, outliers, blink and how many people have read a Malcolm Gladwell book . Thats a lot of you. That explains why Malcolm Gladwell is the number one bestselling author in amazon on the business section and i think he ranks 19th overall in history on amazon. Com. [applause] so his new book which he is here to talk about is called david and goliath underdogs, mi
Basically that fundamental feeling about what constitutes the human and whether the human is capable of perfection by other humans who have been given this tremendous power by more in the. Host next call for ben shapiro, sarah and vermont. Hello. Caller high. Its so good to hear you speak. You have been absolutely brilliant mind. And raining you will be our first jewish president. I have two quick questions. One is, do you think there is any possibility that obama will ever be impeached . Number two, who do you see as two, who do you see has been successful for your choice as aa republican candidate in the next election for president . Guest as far as obama being impeached, hes not going to be and republicans should stop seeing resident obama as the root of all evil, hes the culmination of the 100 year growth of a government in a Progressive Movement that has slowly taken over the country. The first things conservative have to do is acknowledge that they lost. They keep pretending that
Commission and most of the staff or lawyers. But the point is that lawyers need evidence in order to shake their thinking and reach conclusions and there were only two bullets that seemingly hit anyone in the car and so the trajectory was carefully measured in one way by the one commission and the select committee of the house adapted a much more creative way of figuring out the trajectory in 1978 and they also pinpointed the southeastern corner of the depository and this was a trajectory that was down. So we did the main collaboration with the secret service and the cia collaborating and you could see that positions of the bodies were such that a shot going downward had hit something in the car and it was a simpleminded question that we kept asking until finally the possible answer was a single bullet to the damage and we have experts in the u. S. Army who could conduct experiments, excuse the impact using the animal flesh, which directory it had on the president , what it would have