![]() ![]() Gladwell’s new book is called Talking to Strangers and, here we are, two strangers, conversing over tea in a fashionable Covent Garden hotel about the difficulties that can sometimes arise when, as he puts it, “we are thrown into contact with people whose assumptions, perspectives and backgrounds are different from our own”. He is not big on small talk, and one senses that every hour in his working day is geared towards maximum efficiency. The signature afro has been tamed somewhat and, if anything, makes him look even younger. At 55, there is still something of the sporty, if slightly gawky, teenager about him his jeans and a lightweight hoody accentuate his height and wiry thinness. I n the flesh, Malcolm Gladwell is exactly as I imagined him to be: engaging, polite, dauntingly cerebral and supremely self-assured in that way that the exceptionally gifted often are. ![]()
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