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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.44
EAN: 9780316010665
ISBN: 0316010669
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 03, 2007
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Studio: Back Bay Books
Features:- ISBN13: 9780316010665
- Condition: New
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Amazon.com Review:
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff
Product Description:
In his #1 bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. In BLINK, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, examining case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the New Coke, Gladwell shows how the difference between good decision making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but rather with the few particular details on which we focus. BLINK displays all of the brilliance that has made Malcolm Gladwell's journalism so popular and his books such perennial bestsellers as it reveals how all of us can become better decision makers--in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life.
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I find it funny that people say this book is not as good as the Tipping Point. My opinion is the exact opposite. I found the Tipping Point laborious and smacking of pseudo-science. In comparison, Blink is a really good read and deals with science much better. Gladwell does have the gift of translating studies and research into a cogent narrative.
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This blink CD is not what I expected. I don't know if this type of CD is the only available CD or not. The main thing is this CD does not go according to the book. Therefore the purpose I bought the CD did not serve.
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It seems like a lot of reviews have spent a lot of time bemoaning what "Blink" isn't. It isn't a self-help guide that will teach you "how to harness the power of thin slicing to win at business, cards, love, and the stock market" which it seems is what a lot of Americans are looking for. To me - it seems more like an examination of the fact that we've become so data driven in the workforce that we've lost some of the balance between informed decisions based on data and 'gut feel.' I would also ... Read More
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Core idea: The Theory of Thin Slices - How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a LongWay
Thin slicing refers to the ability of the unconscious mind to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very thin slices of experiences. It is about the gut feeling you may have upon meeting someone, or that hunch you strongly feel when observing or learning something for the first time. It is through thin slicing that Dr. John Gottman can accurately predict how a marriage will likely turn out merely ... Read More
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The description that something `makes you think' no longer means that something `fills your mind with novel thought,' but rather that something `makes you skeptical of established beliefs.' The new meaning is useful, but some things out there just fill you with inspirational and amazing thoughts and those valuable things are what should receive the description. Malcolm Gladwell's `Blink' is one of those valuable things.
This is ironic, of course, because the whole book is dedicated to ... Read More
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