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Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

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Talking to Strangers

Von: Malcolm Gladwell
Gesprochen von: Malcolm Gladwell
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 Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press Beziehungen Kommunikation & soziale Kompetenz Persönliche Entwicklung Seelische & Geistige Gesundheit Sozialtheorie Soziologie Sprache, Vokabeln & Grammatik

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"Talking to Strangers is a must-read...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, O, The Oprah Magazine
"Powerful advice on truly getting to know others...Gladwell brilliantly argues that we should stop assuming, realize no one's transparent and understand that behavior is tied to unseen circumstances."—People, Book of the Week
"Gladwell has again delivered a compelling, conversation-starting read...At a time when the world feels intractably polarized, a book examining the varying ways we misinterpret or fail to communicate with one another could not feel more necessary...With a mix of reporting, research and a deft narrative hand, Gladwell illuminates these examples with the page-turning urgency of a paperback thriller."—Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times
"Mr. Gladwell's towering success rests on the moment when the skeptic starts to think that maybe we're wrong about everything and maybe, just maybe, this Gladwell guy is onto something...Talking to Strangers is weightier than his previous titles."—Amy Chozick, New York Times
"Gladwell uses compelling real-world examples to show the how and why behind our interactions with folks we're trying to understand."
—Rhett Power, Forbes
"Gladwell's case studies are thrilling...Chock-full of gripping anecdotes from the recent and forgotten past. He uses these riveting stories to offer up bite-size observations about how we engage with strangers."—Maggie Taft, Booklist
"Another Gladwell tour de force...intellectually stimulating...Readers expecting another everything-you-think-you-know-is-wrong page-turner will not be disappointed."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Both fascinating and topical...A thoughtful treatise...Gladwell writes in his signature colorful, fluid, and accessible prose."—Publishers Weekly
"Gladwell interviews brilliant people, generates powerful insights, writes like an angel, and has earned a massive and admiring audience. He has a keen eye and a witty flair and he's one of the best observationalists of a generation. Gladwell is a big-picture thinker who helps us make sense of the human condition."—Bob Brisco, WebMD Magazine
"As always, with his narrative gift and eye for the telling detail, Gladwell peppers his work with unforgettable facts... He has immense gifts--a probing, original, questioning mind, an ability to dig up information others haven't considered and tie it to a broader point. He has a narrative skill nonpareil."—Stephen Galloway, Hollywood Reporter
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The way this book is presented changes audiobook so much to the better, it's like a good podcast

best audiobook ever

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This book proved to be something that everyone should read or hear at least once in their lives. Not only is it incredibly helpful as a tool to better understand other people and get rid of problems haunting our society, but it is also very interesting. I personally loved how they tried to include real excerpts of interviews, statements and more.

Informative and interesting

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This book discusses some very interesting theories and it is OK to use a few examples to illustrate them, but Gladwell retells spy stories and Al Quaida antiterror operations in unnessecary detail. It is interesting and entertaining, but feels like cheating. US listeners will probably love it.

interesting Details, but 80% sensational cases

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Sehr interessant und aufschlussreich.
Der Zusammenhang von Ort auf Verhaltenmuster wird erklärt und noch mehr. Die Beispiele sind leider durchgehend düster und im Bereich der Kriminalität angesiedelt

Das Konzept von Coupling

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I read some of Malcolms older books. I liked all of them which is the reason why I bought this one. However in my opinion this is not his best work.

Malcolm gives anecdotes to prove his point. One is regarding the UK and WW2. I am not an expert in WW2 history and maybe I got it wrong. However I do not belive that the "appeasement" was the product of politicians meeting Hitler (to put it drasticly).

There are some more anecdotes like this which seem a bit off (in my opinion).



Not impressed

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