Keycode Talking to Strangers

What you need to know about people you don't know What are the internal mechanisms that come into play when we meet strangers and make us spontaneously trust them? How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for thirty years? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are we so bad at judging someone, reading a face, spotting a lie? According to Gladwell, something is seriously wrong with the tools and strategies we employ to understand people we don't know. Through puzzles, encounters and misunderstandings – from little-known stories to famous legal cases – Talking to Strangers is an unexpected journey into History and human psychology. Following the bestsellers David and Goliath and People Who Stand Out, Malcolm Gladwell offers a guide to troubled times because... the unknown is never a simple matter. Best Book of 2019 by The Financial Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg They said about the book: "This book changes not only the way you see strangers but also how you see yourself." –Oprah Winfrey “At a time when the world feels incredibly polarized, a book that examines the many ways we misread others or fail to connect with them seems more necessary than ever…” –Los Angeles Times “Gladwell uses convincing examples from the real world to reveal to us the hows and whys behind our interactions with the people we are trying to understand.” –Forbes Malcolm Glanwell studied History at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He is the author of five NY Times Best Seller books. He is the host of the Revisionist History podcast and maintains a regular column in The New Yorker magazine. He has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine and one of the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine. He worked as a journalist for the Washington Post newspaper. He was born in England and grew up in Ontario, Canada. Today he lives in New York.