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Author of @WinnersTakeAll (out now from @AAKnopf), THE TRUE AMERICAN, & INDIA CALLING. Ex-@NYTimes. NBC political analyst. TED talker. @PriyaParker's man. Dad.

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    Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

    At an event yesterday, maybe four different men asked me: Why didn’t you write a book about solutions? (Women almost never ask this.) It’s a businessman’s need, this thirst for “actionable” solutions. And I’ve come to believe this need masks another, deeper one: for absolution.

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      2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        I’m seldom asked this question by women or people of color. Perhaps because being on the wrong end of a major power equation gives one an appreciation of criticism, of the work of dethroning prejudices and lies.

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      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        I take every question provoked by the book seriously. But in recent weeks I’ve started to realize that this thirst for insta-solutions is a psychological reflex and need more than an intellectual inquiry.

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      4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        One man after another asks it, and often seems to think he’s the first to ask it. There is frequently a suggestion that writing criticism is easy. He could have done that himself! What would be useful is a plan, maybe even numbered.

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      5. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        Anand Giridharadas Retweeted Lisa Kays

        Pause for this great insight from a Twitter follower.https://twitter.com/lisakaysmsw/status/1046454919157485570?s=21 …

        Anand Giridharadas added,

        Lisa Kays @LisaKaysMSW
        Replying to @AnandWrites
        In therapy, when a patient is doing a piece of emotional work and quickly says, “But what do I do about it?”, it is often appropriate to consider and treat this as a defense mechanism. I think you’re onto something.
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      6. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        Sometimes I hold out on principle. Sometimes I give in and start suggesting new tax rates. But what I always want to say is: Why does the existence of a book with criticisms so rankle you? Why do you itch to move on so fast to answers? What if you sat with it a moment?

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      7. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        The books with solutions have already been written! If you are persuaded by @winnerstakeall, persuaded of the need for systemic reform, hundreds of experts have written thousands of books on what fairer tax, labor, social, gender, education policies would be.

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      8. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        The rush to solutions reflects this hope: that barreling past diagnosis to get to prescribing will bypass the phase of blame. Criticism takes sides. Solutions can involve all.

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      9. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

        But would you ever trust a doctor who skipped past diagnosis and opened up the pill cabinet and started tossing bottles at you? Prescription follows diagnosis. Solution follows analysis. Action follows reflection. Doing follows seeing. And it has ever been so.

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      2. Helaine Olen‏Verified account @helaineolen Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        I hate to disagree with someone whose book I like as much as yours, but this is stereotyping. I wrote a book about the sell job that is personal finance several years ago, also lacking solutions. Both men and women critiqued me for that decision. I think it speaks to the (m)

        3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30
        Replying to @helaineolen

        Just telling you my experience of interactions I’ve had.

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      4. Helaine Olen‏Verified account @helaineolen Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        Well, I'm just telling you mine -- and I've been at this for years. Book published last week of 2012. Women are not better than men when it comes to this -- I wish they were, believe me. PS -- I still love your book.

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      2. Benjamin Soskis‏ @BenSoskis Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        I understand why u suggest that insisting on a “solution” to the problem of status-quo preserving philanthropy that u highlight might really be asking for ablution. But do u make a distinction btw that & asking for positive models of progressive philanthropic engagement?

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      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30
        Replying to @BenSoskis

        Big distinction. What I’m talking about is basically: “Why do people have to write critical things ever?”

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      2. Peter Vanham‏Verified account @petervanham Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        Hi Anand, I really like your book, and am OK with it not providing solutions (& actually, I think it does suggest some!) What I’m a bit disappointed by is that you insist on a gender analysis. Even if true, I think it alienates some people who feel stereotyped. Seems unnecessary

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      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30
        Replying to @petervanham

        I write the truth I observe. I know there are delicate balances with the truths one can speak working for a place like @wef. Fortunately, I find myself free of such requirements.

        2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      4. Peter Vanham‏Verified account @petervanham Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites @wef

        I admire you for it! But I also don’t speak on behalf of my employer on Twitter or in most of my personal writing, but more often for myself. It’s delicate indeed, but it’s possible too!

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      2. Ray Suarez‏Verified account @RaySuarezNews Sep 30
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        There is a near-religious, passionate desire that no one should be blamed, or held responsible. Solutions frabba-jabba neatly avoids blame.

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