Traditionally, success has been bult on certainty.
In Gladwell’s case, in “The Tipping Point”, writing on NYC crime, the certainty was “breaking windows”.
Social problems behave like viruses: they emerge, spread, reach a limit (tipping point) and then subside.
Allied to this: Little things in society can be triggers for much larger crime: broken windows.
Stop the windows being smashed and you clean up the community.
But time has disproved this. Broken windows has been discredited, And that’s a key understanding: admit frailty
Today, you are much more likely to win over an audience if you admit uncertainty: you could be wrong. People today want that. KEY IDEA.