Recently I watched\u00a0the most fascinating discussion on the rewards of curiosity with leading author now podcaster Malcolm Gladwell and Oscar winning film producer Brian Grazer.<\/p>\n
The conversation<\/a>\u00a0uncovers an incredible insight into Gladwell\u2019s approach to interviewing.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a journalist you mark the quality of the interview by how little you say, so if you\u2019re constantly having to ask questions the interview is not going well. If you never say anything, it\u2019s perfect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In other words don’t forget the power of listening. We can be thinking so far ahead of what the next question is going to be that we miss the potential gold on offer in that very moment.<\/p>\n In my podcast \u201cThe Outerview\u201d \u00a0I explore what it takes to conduct the perfect interview from dissecting classic interviews to discussing techniques with some of the worlds leading journalists, writers & broadcasters.<\/p>\n You can listen to the archive at\u00a0www.theouterview.com<\/a>\u00a0Photo credit: Pop!Tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I watched\u00a0the most fascinating discussion on the rewards of curiosity with leading author now podcaster Malcolm Gladwell and Oscar winning film producer Brian Grazer. The conversation\u00a0uncovers an incredible insight into Gladwell\u2019s approach to interviewing. \u201cAs a journalist you mark the quality of the interview by how little you say, so if you\u2019re constantly having…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[8,23,21,20,24],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2967350834_12cc664790_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}