Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell

I've seen this talk 10+ times, and it never ceases to astound me

16 years ago. Wow. Seeing comments on here from over a decade ago is so crazy.

ICT🌌1AM Aug 25th 2023

Malcolm's book "Outliers" is such a great book about people that achieve excellence and why they do. Very interesting. Brilliant man. I always love hearing him speak.

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The way he gaves the approach to the subject of variability and horizontal segmentation is caring and interested on a simple and common thing. Remarkable

Variability ... So clear

That was beautiful. Now I have to watch all of his videos.

One of the takeaways I had from this talk is, “there isn’t a one and only way to find true happiness”. All of us have different preferences for spaghetti sauce, likewise, the same could be applied to happiness. What brings joy to others may not necessarily be the same as what brings joy to us. There are a lot of approaches and steps that we can take to find happiness, nonetheless, at the end of the day, it is about what makes WE happy and what sparks joy in US. Albeit, it is also, then, important that we should constantly try out new things, so that we can find out what we really like and want in our life.

we (humans) need to separate some sections in bookstores into books written to speak to different personality types. Most books written to a female audience will be written to favor sensor feelers, most male books for sensor thinker. Some genres of books should be directed to the farther end of the curve- female iNtuitives. Male feelers. etc. We are yet in the stone age in many ways.

So many applications. Some guys like a spicy girl. Some like them traditional. Some like them extra chunky.

Great speaker.

Now to watch him debate with Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi on the Munk Debate.

one of the best ted talks ever!!

This reminds me of this time in high school when I stepped in some Malcom Gladwell and tracked it all the way into my Algebra class. I had no idea I'd even stepped in some Malcom Gladwell until the disgusting smell started filling the classroom. By that time, the entire class was smelling Malcom Gladwell and looking around to see where it came from, including me. Then I saw it, the footprints of Malcom Gladwell all leading up to my desk and right to my left shoe, which was half covered in Malcom Gladwell. Possibly the most embarrassing moment of my life. All I'm saying is, just always make sure to check your shoes for Malcom Gladwell before you enter a building and track Malcom Gladwell everywhere.

Would have been amazing if this were recorded on something other than a potato in 2004.

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Interesting but anticlimactic

I first came to know Howard was when reading the "Salt Sugar Fat" by Michael Moss. He's a genius and this talk was great not only in that Malcolm paid such respect to Howard's work but also in that Malcolm himself brought so much life in this topic.