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From the author of "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell's international bestseller "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a revolution ...Show synopsisFrom the author of "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell's international bestseller "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a revolution in the understanding of the mind. An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person...This book is all about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. Here Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of 'blink', showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you'll never think about thinking in the same way again. "Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted". ("The New York Times"). "Compelling, fiendishly clever". ("Evening Standard"). "Brilliant ...the implications for business, let alone love, are vast". ("Observer"). "Superb ...this wonderful book should be compulsory reading". ("New Statesman"). ""Blink" might just change your life". ("Esquire"). "Should you buy this book? You already know the answer to that". ("Independent on Sunday"). Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the "New Yorker" magazine. His first book "The Tipping Point" captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects. His other international bestselling books are "Outliers", which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals and reveals the secrets of their success, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" and "What The Dog Saw", a collection of his most provocative and entertaining "New Yorker" pieces.Hide synopsis
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little Brown and Company) – Hardcover (2005)
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Hardcover, Little Brown and Company 2005
English
288 pages
ISBN: 0316172324 ISBN-13: 9780316172325
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into ...Show moreIn his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.Hide
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I bought this book for my husband. He had borrowed the book from a friend and loved it so much he wanted his own copy. I gave it to him for his Birthday.
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Gladwell is a very readable, incisive writer. He presents and analyzes a lot of results of very good science on human cognition and understanding that may be new to most readers.
The announced purpose is to discuss how humans make successful snap judgments, both correct and incorrect. While he ...
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There's a lot to learn from this book. I found "thin slicing" one of the most interesting concepts. It explains how a group was able to tell if a pair of newly weds would still be married years later (with a very high success rate) from just looking at them talk for a few minutes. I, personally, am ...
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