Malcolm Gladwell

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you want to get ahead of 99 of people stop doing what 99 of people do today's guest malcolm gladwell he's dedicated his career to one message get off the beaten path before it beats you up and we are going to go deep into this things i've never heard him talk about just for you how do we tell people you need to do harder things without them going okay older people you guys don't understand anything

You say something along the lines of, it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond.

And I'm wondering, do you think that is true, that it's better to be exceptional in a less competitive market than to be sort of normal in a really competitive one?

fascinating.

It called to me because I've seen it in our employees.

We have a lot of employees in our main company that's called 100 Contrarian Thinking, and then across our portfolio companies, thousands.

And it does seem like if somebody suffers from confidence

They just have a harder time performing and I can't ascertain their IQ.

We don't do any sort of tests like that, but I might have some indications.

And so I was curious, do you think that that applies as you get older?

Like we don't want to maybe make it a general rule, but as you get older, does this rule in some ways hold?

And is there any evidence to show us that?

Great point.

I think about it with my husband.

He's a former Navy SEAL.

He's always like, well, let's work out together.

I'm like, absolutely not.

I couldn't think of anything I want to do less, actually.