"Teaching yourself everything is interesting because our natural human inclination when we are confronted with things, our immediate inclination is to edit. We have to dismiss things as not interesting but as a writer we have to reverse that very common human desire to edit and surrender."
It would be a much better world if we could all retain that child like wonder we all lost in the process of "growing" up. In other words shedding that longing for cognitive fluency. Full interview here - Gladwell talks about his book What the Dog Saw (collection of his NewYorker essays)
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