Hablar con extraños / Talking to Strangers (Paperback)

from lamour

Using a collection of true stories, Gladwell illustrates how we think we know what the person we are talking to is really thinking or meaning by their words or demeanor. Using the examples of Chamberlain misreading Hitler, investigators interviewing Bernie Madoff and believing his explanations, t...

from angiestahl

4 rating relative to other non-fiction. 3.5 rating relative to other books by Gladwell. Recommended either way. Malcom Gladwell has an amazing brain. He is good at asking interesting interesting questions, doing the research to come up with a perspective and presenting the case for his POV in an ...

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Malcolm Gladwell's latest foray into human folly is its seemingly innate trust in strangers. We assume strangers are transparent, and can take what they do and say at face value. Sometimes we are wrong, but assuming everyone is evil is far worse. Talking To Strangers focuses (mostly) on a number ...

from Andy5185

I always get something out of every book Malcolm Gladwell has done, and this new one is no exception. The deep dives he does on the subjects he selected to hone in on are really fascinating and moving. It reminds us of how we need to be patient with each other (and ourselves).

from TheCriticalTimes

An easy to read non-fiction book about what can go wrong when we talk to strangers. This book is about assumptions, bias, human behavior and all those other things that make us highly adaptable and deeply flawed. As other reviewers have noticed this book does suffer from the 'these observations...