Malcolm Gladwell: The Revenge of the Tipping Point

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria | Houston, TX

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Author of Bestseller "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell, joins us to discuss his new book! You won't want to miss this!
About this Event

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History and Broken Record. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. He was born in England, raised in Canada, and lives outside New York with his family and a cat named Biggie Smalls.

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

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Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria, 2001 Post Oak Boulevard, Houston, United States

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