Malcolm Gladwell
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When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's Throughline podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. On Throughline, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. Time travel with us every week on the Throughline podcast from NPR.
When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's Throughline podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. On Throughline, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. Time travel with us every week on the Throughline podcast from NPR.
My mom, I was talking to my mom. My mom is 93. And she just turned 93. And I was talking to her. And it was her birthday. And she just, she's a twin. She was talking to her. So she just called her twin sister who lives in Jamaica. And she said to me, She was a little emotional, which is rare for, Gladwell's also not terribly emotional.
My mom, I was talking to my mom. My mom is 93. And she just turned 93. And I was talking to her. And it was her birthday. And she just, she's a twin. She was talking to her. So she just called her twin sister who lives in Jamaica. And she said to me, She was a little emotional, which is rare for, Gladwell's also not terribly emotional.
And she said to me, you know, I look back on my life and I cannot believe how improbable it was.
And she said to me, you know, I look back on my life and I cannot believe how improbable it was.
I don't know, he was... I'm sorry.
I don't know, he was... I'm sorry.
I mean, I do cry every time. He's been gone five years. And a friend of mine said, two friends of mine said two very beautiful things that I've always remembered. One was a friend of mine who was writing something about his father, and he said, My father died 20 years ago today. I know him better today than I did back then.
I mean, I do cry every time. He's been gone five years. And a friend of mine said, two friends of mine said two very beautiful things that I've always remembered. One was a friend of mine who was writing something about his father, and he said, My father died 20 years ago today. I know him better today than I did back then.
And I think about that nearly every day, because I think I know him better now. And another thing a friend of mine said in trying to console me was that grief is the way we keep someone alive. And it's a gift, in other words. Yeah. And I think that's, I can't, I think I continue to grieve because I can't, I can't let it go.
And I think about that nearly every day, because I think I know him better now. And another thing a friend of mine said in trying to console me was that grief is the way we keep someone alive. And it's a gift, in other words. Yeah. And I think that's, I can't, I think I continue to grieve because I can't, I can't let it go.
He was, so he was an Englishman with a big bushy beard. And he was such a stereotypical Englishman. He liked going for long walks in the rain with dogs. He was a gardener. That's what he loved to do above all else. He only ever cried when he was reading Dickens to his children.
He was, so he was an Englishman with a big bushy beard. And he was such a stereotypical Englishman. He liked going for long walks in the rain with dogs. He was a gardener. That's what he loved to do above all else. He only ever cried when he was reading Dickens to his children.
He was a mathematician and a very good one, I think, although I have no idea because I could never follow what he was doing. He was a... He was completely indifferent to what the world thought. He just did whatever he wanted to do, which I thought as a kid was the most magnificent thing I had ever seen.
He was a mathematician and a very good one, I think, although I have no idea because I could never follow what he was doing. He was a... He was completely indifferent to what the world thought. He just did whatever he wanted to do, which I thought as a kid was the most magnificent thing I had ever seen.
There you go. That's how it's done.
There you go. That's how it's done.