Blink

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• Be a blinking marvel

  Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Penguin £16.99, pp277 Love at first sight is one of our most endearing beliefs, but it is a romantic delusion. What's happening is not an unmediated explosion of energy and data whizzi ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• On second thoughts ...

  Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell 304pp, Allen Lane, £16.99 This second book by the world's top journalist/business guru, makes a very attractive proposition. If we pay attention to his findings, Malcolm Gladwell says, ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

37 Reviews

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  Disappointing...

  thought it would be mind-blowing. ended up looping in a single message with various examples...

  thought it should be finished in a "blink"(!?)

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  Vivian said on Jun 14, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  A reasonable read but kinda crappy content, contradictory and lots were very obvious. Still, well written and did a lot with limited material

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  Simon Newstead said on Jul 6, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Gladwell manages to bring together the most varied examples to get his point across. He's also a masterful storyteller, making stats and research (on subjects you would never dream of) fascinating.

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  SeanaMO said on Jan 4, 2008 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

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  interesting but...

  ...a bit repetitive.

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  Cinzia said on Oct 23, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Gladwell's writing is compelling and the book is rich of case studies and examples. But it seems to me he's just moving around one thesis which is too difficult to develop in rigorous terms.

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  dario villa said on Sep 9, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Read and keep as resource (illustrations)

  About the "closed door" of our decision making. There is a rational part of our brain that makes judgments apart from conscious thought. This part of our brain can be valuable if we learn when to trust and when not to trust it. Many implications to why we believe what we believe. Studies show wh ... (continue)

  About the "closed door" of our decision making. There is a rational part of our brain that makes judgments apart from conscious thought. This part of our brain can be valuable if we learn when to trust and when not to trust it. Many implications to why we believe what we believe. Studies show when we try to explain things that were actually decided behind the locked door, we just make things up that may or may not correlate. The book was poorly written and patched together from the author's past articles, but many interesting things said.

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  Brandon Current said on Sep 1, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 240 Pages
• Edition: 第1版
• ISBN-10: 0141022043
• ISBN-13: 9780141022048
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Pub date: Jan 02, 2006
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Svenska böcker

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