Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Georgina Godwin to discuss his life, career and gripping podcast series, ‘Revisionist History’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Many of the stories I do podcasts about you really couldn't do in print.
They.
They don't.
They wouldn't work.
The narrative effect you're trying for is something that really requires audio.
I really do think they're.
The more I get into it, the more I'm convinced they're profoundly different genres.
You know how hard it is to make someone cry on the page.
I mean, Dickens could do it, but it's really difficult making someone cry in a podcast.
I mean, we do it all the time.
That little fact alone speaks volumes as to the difference in these two forms.
My guest today is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and is known for his 10,000 hours of practice theory of success.
He's also the co founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcast Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood.
He's been included in the time 100 most influential people list and touted as one of foreign policy's top global thinkers.
I'm Georgina Godwin and I spoke to Malcolm Gladwell on the big interview.
So, Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Global Bestsellers and Public Intellectuals.
Well known to many people, Malcolm Gladwell, the politics podcaster is relatively new, and I just wonder how different he is.
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The New York Times says author Gladwell is a crisp white shirt and slacks podcaster.
Gladwell is a bucket hat and flip flops.