Malcolm Gladwell: Why Do We Fall For Lies?

In this intense, far-ranging conversation with Matthew d'Ancona, Malcolm Gladwell takes you on a tour of the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences. In the midst of a pandemic, political turmoil and economic uncertainty, Malcolm uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown. 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? And how can we make it through the next stage of human history? 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 the host of the critically acclaimed ‘Revisionist History’, and he has spoken on platforms as diverse as TED to Joe Rogan, Channel 4 to Jimmy Kimmel Live - but he now joins the How To Academy for a second time. Click 'subscribe' for weekly videos featuring the world's most renowned artists and thinkers. How To Academy is the home of big thinking. From Richard Dawkins to Elizabeth Gilbert, Jordan Peterson to Slavoj Žižek, Emma Watson to Yuval Noah Harari, we invite the world’s most influential artists and thinkers to share their insights and ideas in livestreams and live events. We help businesses inspire clients and staff, and we host events, make podcasts and create films to spread knowledge and innovation across the globe. Visit https://howtoacademy.com/ for our upcoming events.