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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Yeah, I think so. Well, there's another. OK, this this brings up another point, which is that because when I read that, I thought, shit, I should have I should have done some fencing. I worked way too hard in high school. That would have been much easier. Yeah, I should have been a champion beekeeper. But the bigger point is that people can eventually game anything.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Yeah, I think so. Well, there's another. OK, this this brings up another point, which is that because when I read that, I thought, shit, I should have I should have done some fencing. I worked way too hard in high school. That would have been much easier. Yeah, I should have been a champion beekeeper. But the bigger point is that people can eventually game anything.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

That's the way I feel about it is that, because the other point is, okay, let's set all the rich kids who are playing those sports aside and say, okay, we really want it to be a meritocracy, so we're gonna have it be about the SAT.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

That's the way I feel about it is that, because the other point is, okay, let's set all the rich kids who are playing those sports aside and say, okay, we really want it to be a meritocracy, so we're gonna have it be about the SAT.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

That's the way I feel about it is that, because the other point is, okay, let's set all the rich kids who are playing those sports aside and say, okay, we really want it to be a meritocracy, so we're gonna have it be about the SAT.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

People can game that because parents hire SAT tutors. There's billions of dollars spent a year making sure that kids are very familiar with that test. I think it still does test people who are off the charts in certain... But what I'm saying is that no matter what you do, I mean, we've seen this on Wall Street a million times, you set up these rules, someone will find... Yeah. A small crack.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

People can game that because parents hire SAT tutors. There's billions of dollars spent a year making sure that kids are very familiar with that test. I think it still does test people who are off the charts in certain... But what I'm saying is that no matter what you do, I mean, we've seen this on Wall Street a million times, you set up these rules, someone will find... Yeah. A small crack.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

People can game that because parents hire SAT tutors. There's billions of dollars spent a year making sure that kids are very familiar with that test. I think it still does test people who are off the charts in certain... But what I'm saying is that no matter what you do, I mean, we've seen this on Wall Street a million times, you set up these rules, someone will find... Yeah. A small crack.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Someone will say, hey, wait a minute. No one ever said anything about mortgage-backed securities. Bang. Yeah. Everybody's doing it. And then the whole system collapses. And we wonder, wait a minute. Why did that guy who works on a garbage truck own nine properties?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Someone will say, hey, wait a minute. No one ever said anything about mortgage-backed securities. Bang. Yeah. Everybody's doing it. And then the whole system collapses. And we wonder, wait a minute. Why did that guy who works on a garbage truck own nine properties?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Someone will say, hey, wait a minute. No one ever said anything about mortgage-backed securities. Bang. Yeah. Everybody's doing it. And then the whole system collapses. And we wonder, wait a minute. Why did that guy who works on a garbage truck own nine properties?

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Yeah. And I have a lot to say about The Little Mermaid. That's right. That's not contract law.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Yeah. And I have a lot to say about The Little Mermaid. That's right. That's not contract law.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Yeah. And I have a lot to say about The Little Mermaid. That's right. That's not contract law.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Well, here's the other thing, too. I mean, I've said this to everybody I've ever encountered in this business is that I have had the privilege of working with so many talented, amazing, funny people who are great at what they do. And often I don't know where they went to college. because the amount of pressure we put on that is insane.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Well, here's the other thing, too. I mean, I've said this to everybody I've ever encountered in this business is that I have had the privilege of working with so many talented, amazing, funny people who are great at what they do. And often I don't know where they went to college. because the amount of pressure we put on that is insane.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Well, here's the other thing, too. I mean, I've said this to everybody I've ever encountered in this business is that I have had the privilege of working with so many talented, amazing, funny people who are great at what they do. And often I don't know where they went to college. because the amount of pressure we put on that is insane.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And you talk a lot about resilience and people who are not from a monoculture, but people who are forced to be resilient and the great benefits that that has. And I don't know, I just, I'm always- I thought you were gonna tell us your SAT score.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And you talk a lot about resilience and people who are not from a monoculture, but people who are forced to be resilient and the great benefits that that has. And I don't know, I just, I'm always- I thought you were gonna tell us your SAT score.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Malcolm Gladwell Returns

And you talk a lot about resilience and people who are not from a monoculture, but people who are forced to be resilient and the great benefits that that has. And I don't know, I just, I'm always- I thought you were gonna tell us your SAT score.