TED's Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening | Ezra Klein Show

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You know TED. Black stage, red accents, wireless mic, one speaker. Billions of views each year. TED is more than a conference now; it’s a meme: “Thanks for coming to my TED talk” closes Tumblr and Twitter posts.
Chris Anderson is the guy that took TED from tiny conference to global juggernaut. Today, he’s TED’s chief curator and the host of the TED Interview podcast. But I wanted him on the show for something specific - his success with TED relied on answering two questions this podcast has left me obsessed with:
1. How do you convince an audience, or even yourself, to listen openly to what’s being said?
2. How do you find ideas, research, and activists that the media is otherwise overlooking?
In this conversation, Anderson offers a visual I love: "the steel door of skepticism" that can slam down on us when we know we don't want to listen to what we're about to hear. How to get control of that door is a topic worth meditating on, and it's the focus of this podcast.
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