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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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The highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History.
With original archival interviews and musical scoring, this enhanced audiobook edition of Talking to Strangers brings Gladwell’s renowned storytelling to life in his unparalleled narrating style.
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?
Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.
Critic Reviews
"I love this book...reading it will actually change not just how you see strangers, but how you look at yourself, the news - the world. Reading this book changed me." (Oprah Winfrey)
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- Mano
- 21-09-19
One of the best audio books
Very thought provoking. MG is awesome as always. His own voice makes this audio book a perfect one.
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- Desigrad
- 29-09-19
Engaging performance, intriguing storyline
Finished a book for the first time in recent years and I was hooked! But at the end, I was left hanging...I guess I was hoping Gladwell would offer more personal and practical solutions to the problem. Anyway, it was still worth it... the narration is interspersed with audio from interviews with the actual people or with reenactments, which made it very engaging. It would be interesting to see if the premise holds good in countries like India.
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- santosh
- 22-10-19
A must read
Eye opener supported by relevant case studies. A relevant book being a must read in today's world.
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- A J
- 19-10-19
Not a tutorial/guidebook to talk to strangers
This is a highly insightful Book on how human thinking works and how we should approach strangers in different kind of situations, how situationally the response might change and why one should not blame themselves for a situational response driven by inherent trusting nature of humans. It starts out with a very emotionally charged conversation of a police officer stopping a black female for a traffic violation, which eventually lead to the said female committing suicide a few days later. Author tries to build upon various theories around why humans interact the way they do and try to rationalize different real world examples and how taking conclusions out of context can lead to a rule that can lose the essence of situational reasoning and sometimes even draw outright wrong conclusion about why a role was encoded. Finally, the author concludes how the opening conversation was flawed and how it could have been fixed/avoided by following some of insightful understanding about human behaviour when we meet strangers. Overall it was very engaging and i thoroughly enjoyed the new audiobook with podcast kind of presentation. Definitely recommend it to anyone whose day job would involve talking to a lot of strangers.
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- Murthy Chaganti
- 13-11-19
Could have been great
A good book but fails from becoming great as it meanders in many directions. A good book for lawyers, cops - all negotiators
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- Bhanu Prasad Neerukonda
- 26-11-19
Definitely a must read
I loved the way he explained everything in detail but I also whished that there should be some more details added to the story when discussing historical events although it's not most necessary thing to understand what he is trying to convey. The part where he explained how people acquire the facial expressions is my favourite.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-11-19
Such a gr8 review of human psychology
narration was awesome, loved the voice clips, it's the best audiobook really unique and one of its kind, I also enjoyed the music :)
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-19
Mind blowing
Malcolm gladwell is the master of breaking things down, especially the things that make a difference.
I don’t know about others, but this book surely made me look at lying, confronting strangers and crime, in a totally different light. Thank you Malcolm.
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- Dimpesh
- 02-09-20
Psychology basis the happenings frok real world
It's a book where you'll get to know the psychology behind both side of a story and gives a new meaning to a conversation.
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- Amit Mittal
- 01-04-20
More of the same .. Gladwell
Gladwell remains unique. A well thought out and cogent thesis is out there, only Gladwell is discovering the same through his podcasts. He is probably one of the multitude of leaders from academics who have found solace in not pursuing academic research and continue to pursue their thesis because of their unique focus on touching the audience's hearts. The only thing is I suspect he has not reached the end, which seems almost in sight again here, especially if you started the journey before Tipping point and David and Goliath. You can just stay with Revisionist History and find out wen he does discover the end to all his stories of miscommunication, underdog and other lesser known truths ignored by statistics and models and economics
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