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A review by lauraa_mariee
Malcolm Gladwell: Collected by Malcolm Gladwell
5.0
Would recommend this podcast! Whether you start in season 1 or 2, start in any episode that captures you the most. I have to say the best thing about it would be Malcolm Gladwell... his voice is very easy to listen to. Plus, he captures all the interesting detail of the stories that he discusses.
Merged review:
So I only had 2 episodes left before I could say I was finished. I've been listening to this podcast (both season2) for several months now. But I'm going to post a full review here. (This will hopefully be my first "proper" review I've done of something so bear with me.)
I want to start with one particular episode that I loved to bits. That would be the one called "Hallelujah." Overall, it is mostly a bit of a review and history behind the song 'The Deportees Club' and the later 'Deportee' by Elvis Costello. If I'm being completely honest, it isn't something that interests me, but I wanted to see where the discussion was going. Where it picked up for me particularly was when Malcolm brings in some artists I can recognise. By artists I mean 'Picasso' and '
'Cézanne.' He uses these two artists to discuss how most people who produce some kind of art are either one or the other... Oh, now I am interested.
Anyway. That's when the famous song we all know in one form or another 'Hallelujah' comes in to play. Leonard Cohen who created this song is dubbed as a Cézanne. Basically, he takes forever to perfect something that others see as perfect, but... he doesn't necessarily see how it could be finished. I loved this part of the podcast the most because it 1) gave me some background trivia I never knew of the song before such as... there are, like, 70 verses in the original lyrics and, 2) it made me feel like my own art I produce can be a Picasso (finished quickly) or a Cézanne and still become a masterpiece in its own right.
This is what a lot of the episodes tend to do. They give you some interesting facts about things you kind of know about, but not in that detail or that mindset. And on the other hand, they do something personal for you. They give you some sort of personal insight into someone's life that affects you one way or another. The episode about some man who had no power bringing McDonalds to its knees was able to tell its listener that we could do the same. Maybe not on the same scale, but we can do something incredible if we just put our mind to it and trudge on, no matter what we are facing. 'General Orthodoxy' is another beautiful story. For some, it will be more personal than others. For those others, you'll get to see another side of religion that you might have not heard of before—and you'll learn from it.
Overall, this is an amazing podcast and I do hope it continues. (I haven't heard of a season 3, but we can only hope, right?)
Anyway, please listen to some of these episodes. During a car ride, before you go to sleep, while you create your own masterpiece, whenever you have free time. It deserves a listen from everyone.
Merged review:
So I only had 2 episodes left before I could say I was finished. I've been listening to this podcast (both season2) for several months now. But I'm going to post a full review here. (This will hopefully be my first "proper" review I've done of something so bear with me.)
I want to start with one particular episode that I loved to bits. That would be the one called "Hallelujah." Overall, it is mostly a bit of a review and history behind the song 'The Deportees Club' and the later 'Deportee' by Elvis Costello. If I'm being completely honest, it isn't something that interests me, but I wanted to see where the discussion was going. Where it picked up for me particularly was when Malcolm brings in some artists I can recognise. By artists I mean 'Picasso' and '
'Cézanne.' He uses these two artists to discuss how most people who produce some kind of art are either one or the other... Oh, now I am interested.
Anyway. That's when the famous song we all know in one form or another 'Hallelujah' comes in to play. Leonard Cohen who created this song is dubbed as a Cézanne. Basically, he takes forever to perfect something that others see as perfect, but... he doesn't necessarily see how it could be finished. I loved this part of the podcast the most because it 1) gave me some background trivia I never knew of the song before such as... there are, like, 70 verses in the original lyrics and, 2) it made me feel like my own art I produce can be a Picasso (finished quickly) or a Cézanne and still become a masterpiece in its own right.
This is what a lot of the episodes tend to do. They give you some interesting facts about things you kind of know about, but not in that detail or that mindset. And on the other hand, they do something personal for you. They give you some sort of personal insight into someone's life that affects you one way or another. The episode about some man who had no power bringing McDonalds to its knees was able to tell its listener that we could do the same. Maybe not on the same scale, but we can do something incredible if we just put our mind to it and trudge on, no matter what we are facing. 'General Orthodoxy' is another beautiful story. For some, it will be more personal than others. For those others, you'll get to see another side of religion that you might have not heard of before—and you'll learn from it.
Overall, this is an amazing podcast and I do hope it continues. (I haven't heard of a season 3, but we can only hope, right?)
Anyway, please listen to some of these episodes. During a car ride, before you go to sleep, while you create your own masterpiece, whenever you have free time. It deserves a listen from everyone.