Malcolm Gladwell

So, I mean, yeah, I find it's weird. And also it was so long ago, like this is the, this was the late nineties. I'm older than you guys, but it's like, have you looked at your high school yearbook or like, it's just everything about it is cringeworthy. I mean, it should be fine to look back on your 25 years in the past self and have an issue. I would, I would hope he would have an issue.

because because you're making them do work yeah so you gotta revise you have to revise your opinion of them and that seems like oh that that seems like an imposition i think that's what um as opposed to kind of um you know it's the same way when a musician makes a kind of change in their style yeah there's always a set of fans who are appalled by this like

because because you're making them do work yeah so you gotta revise you have to revise your opinion of them and that seems like oh that that seems like an imposition i think that's what um as opposed to kind of um you know it's the same way when a musician makes a kind of change in their style yeah there's always a set of fans who are appalled by this like

Like they don't – like they want the musician to be kind of frozen in amber. Yeah. To be the same person they encountered for the first time at 16. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How dare you use an electric guitar or whatever the argument is. It is a funny – I don't – I mean I think you – the question is who is your obligation to as a writer? Is it to your audience or is it to yourself?

Like they don't – like they want the musician to be kind of frozen in amber. Yeah. To be the same person they encountered for the first time at 16. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How dare you use an electric guitar or whatever the argument is. It is a funny – I don't – I mean I think you – the question is who is your obligation to as a writer? Is it to your audience or is it to yourself?

I think it has to be first and foremost it has to be to yourself. We're going to continue this conversation right after this short break.

I think it has to be first and foremost it has to be to yourself. We're going to continue this conversation right after this short break.

It's not that you shouldn't trust what I said in the other book. Right. It's that I've moved on. It's just not where I am at this moment.

It's not that you shouldn't trust what I said in the other book. Right. It's that I've moved on. It's just not where I am at this moment.

I haven't repudiated them. They're not who I am now, right? You know, in the same way, it wasn't... To go back to my dad, for example, when my dad changed his mind, sometimes it would be he would go from, you know, A to Z. But sometimes it was just... He just... There was an earlier version of himself that believed this... And then that self was gone.

I haven't repudiated them. They're not who I am now, right? You know, in the same way, it wasn't... To go back to my dad, for example, when my dad changed his mind, sometimes it would be he would go from, you know, A to Z. But sometimes it was just... He just... There was an earlier version of himself that believed this... And then that self was gone.

And he was now someone who believed this new thing. It was just a kind of, it's just about accepting the evolution. The thinking involves evolution.

And he was now someone who believed this new thing. It was just a kind of, it's just about accepting the evolution. The thinking involves evolution.

This is interesting. I have a friend of mine. I was playing the game of, I love playing the magic wand game where you could change, wave a magic wand and change one thing. What would it be in the world? And her answer was to make everyone in the world for one year trade places with someone else in the world.

This is interesting. I have a friend of mine. I was playing the game of, I love playing the magic wand game where you could change, wave a magic wand and change one thing. What would it be in the world? And her answer was to make everyone in the world for one year trade places with someone else in the world.

So just imagine a big random, everyone in the world puts a random hat and then you take, you put your address, you put your address in a hat and then you pull out a different address and you got to live there for a year.

So just imagine a big random, everyone in the world puts a random hat and then you take, you put your address, you put your address in a hat and then you pull out a different address and you got to live there for a year.

If you're unhoused.

If you're unhoused.

And her argument would be that this would be the single greatest way to solve, like, the single greatest short-term solution to mankind's problems. By the way, I think she's 100% right here. This is such a genius idea. But my point is, if you want to participate in the world in a kind of ethical way, you have to do a version of this in your life.