Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

I finished Malcolm Gladwell’s audiobook recently. It was very cool. Like a longer version of his podcast. I think what I liked most about it was that he took a topic (the death of Sandra Bland) and then worked through how something like that could happen. 

He follows the idea of default to truth and how people trust others naturally. He uses different stories to show how sometimes that default to truth does not work out. For example, he talks about how there are people who just react differently in certain situations. They may laugh when they should cry and those reactions cause people to mistrust them. Anyways, all of these stories end up leading us to how policing has changed over the past years and how that change ended up leading the officer to arrest Sandra Bland.

If you are a fan of Revisionist History, then you will definitely enjoy the book. I recommend checking it out.

Author: Ngewo