Malcolm Gladwell

But I don't have a lot to give you right now.

You had a saying that I thought was so good.

You said, colleges are overrated status machines.

And I was curious, do you still think of colleges as overrated status machines?

If so, why or why not?

So good.

Yeah.

You know, I never thought about that way because you were told the opposite.

And even in fact, I'm sure I've said it, you know, go to the place that has the smartest people.

You could be the dumbest one in the room.

You'll learn more.

But then I do look back at my days at like Goldman Sachs and they cut the 20 percent of everybody every year.

It's like you didn't really get to stay in the room with the smart people for very long if you were the bottom 20 percent.

Yeah.

And that's obviously really intense culture.

But yeah.

it's an interesting counterpoint to a lot of the sort of one-liners we get told in life today.

What about this disparity we have that you talk about between desirable difficulties and coddling ourselves too much?

What is the difference between the two and how do we know where we're sitting?

Do you think that we coddle ourselves too much?