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Malcolm Gladwell

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Meaning, which I thought was hilarious because it's a test designed to measure your aptitude for being a lawyer. Mm-hmm. And the test for being a lawyer can only be – you can only do well if you learn how to process without understanding. If my lawyer came to me and said, I processed your case without understanding it, I think I'd be a little bit alarmed. Yeah.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

So it was like – Sounds like a good lawyer, though.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

So it was like – Sounds like a good lawyer, though.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

So it was like – Sounds like a good lawyer, though.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, but it does. I was part, I never, because in Canada we don't have, I'm Canadian, we don't have standardized tests. I knew nothing about these. I moved to America after college and I hear people talk about the SAT and it sounds like some kind of strange holy rite. And I was so kind of curious that at a certain point in my life I decided I had to do it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, but it does. I was part, I never, because in Canada we don't have, I'm Canadian, we don't have standardized tests. I knew nothing about these. I moved to America after college and I hear people talk about the SAT and it sounds like some kind of strange holy rite. And I was so kind of curious that at a certain point in my life I decided I had to do it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, but it does. I was part, I never, because in Canada we don't have, I'm Canadian, we don't have standardized tests. I knew nothing about these. I moved to America after college and I hear people talk about the SAT and it sounds like some kind of strange holy rite. And I was so kind of curious that at a certain point in my life I decided I had to do it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And I went and I sat in that big room with hundreds of other people. I was the only person over the age of like 25. And I ended up tying my assistant. Oh, okay. Which I thought was good. The money was on her because she's 24. And the general consensus around the office is I didn't stand a chance because I've obviously lost so many brain cells. What was your score? I don't remember.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And I went and I sat in that big room with hundreds of other people. I was the only person over the age of like 25. And I ended up tying my assistant. Oh, okay. Which I thought was good. The money was on her because she's 24. And the general consensus around the office is I didn't stand a chance because I've obviously lost so many brain cells. What was your score? I don't remember.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And I went and I sat in that big room with hundreds of other people. I was the only person over the age of like 25. And I ended up tying my assistant. Oh, okay. Which I thought was good. The money was on her because she's 24. And the general consensus around the office is I didn't stand a chance because I've obviously lost so many brain cells. What was your score? I don't remember.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

It was not impressive. Basically, I was headed for a mediocre law school, which... That's fine. Someone's got to be.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

It was not impressive. Basically, I was headed for a mediocre law school, which... That's fine. Someone's got to be.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

It was not impressive. Basically, I was headed for a mediocre law school, which... That's fine. Someone's got to be.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

I thought that's where you were headed.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

I thought that's where you were headed.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

I thought that's where you were headed.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, I had that chapter, another chapter of the book, where I ran across a bunch of articles by these two sociologists, Anna Muller and Seth Arberton. And they were talking about a town they would only call Poplar Grove. And they had been working there, studying it for years. And they described it. And I later figured out what town it was and went there for myself and confirmed it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, I had that chapter, another chapter of the book, where I ran across a bunch of articles by these two sociologists, Anna Muller and Seth Arberton. And they were talking about a town they would only call Poplar Grove. And they had been working there, studying it for years. And they described it. And I later figured out what town it was and went there for myself and confirmed it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

No, I had that chapter, another chapter of the book, where I ran across a bunch of articles by these two sociologists, Anna Muller and Seth Arberton. And they were talking about a town they would only call Poplar Grove. And they had been working there, studying it for years. And they described it. And I later figured out what town it was and went there for myself and confirmed it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

It's the perfect, it literally is the perfect community. If you went there, you would say, it's like upper income, on the water, incredibly tight knit.