Malcolm Gladwell

So you understand it's a small universe.

There's a small universe of people who remember track and field in the 70s and an even smaller universe of people who followed the triple jump.

Yeah, that's right, that's right.

But Milan was this kind of spectral, brilliant, he was an artist.

He spoke in these kind of gnomic utterances.

He was.

He's so fascinating and kind of just like, I immediately knew we were in some magical universe when we went to see Milan Tiff.

Milan takes us to the UCLA track, and he wants to show us the secrets to the triple jump.

And my interest in all of this, I'm actually, because I'm a huge track and field fan, I'm just so happy to be at the UCLA track.

And I'm aware of the fact that you don't, you're not a track and field fan.

And I'm desperate to kind of impress upon you why this is the greatest sport of all time.

And I want you to appreciate the beauty of

running, which to my mind is the reason you watch track and field.

And so I see out of the corner of my eye, a woman running 200 meter intervals on the track.

And I say to you, Ben, you- And I could see it.

You could see it.

You could see it.

And I said to you, I actually went back over the tape.

I said to you, I don't know who that is, but that's a great runner.

And then she got closer and stopped and was chatting with Milan.