Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking By Malcolm Gladwell

  In his last book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell got it so right that the title has become an everyday expression. Now Gladwell has turned his highly insightful eye on how we make snap judgments. Distilling a lot of information from disparate so ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  Review-a-Day Saturday, February 19th, 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell A review by Chris Bolton Blink is a fluke. That is, my reading Blink is a fluke. Part of my job at Powells.com involves adding review and exc ... (read full critics)

  powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  What has attracted me to read this book is its subject. How can we know snap judgment is powerful if we can’t even look into the locked door hidden behind consciousness? How can ‘blink’ be more useful than ‘think’? Nevertheless, right after reading the first 2 chapters, I was convinced snap judgment ... (continue)

  What has attracted me to read this book is its subject. How can we know snap judgment is powerful if we can’t even look into the locked door hidden behind consciousness? How can ‘blink’ be more useful than ‘think’? Nevertheless, right after reading the first 2 chapters, I was convinced snap judgment is influencing my decision making implicitly, especially those involve emotion or sentiment. No doubts that Gladwell is a very good writer. Many of the examples used in this book are come from the academic world and some of the ideas are quite abstract. But this book turns out to be an easy-to-read book. Ideas are organized in a systematic way and illustrated with abundant interesting examples. I especially like the author’s writing style, which makes this book very enjoyable to read.<br />To me, the second half of this book is not as good as the first half. Like in Chapter 5, the message is the importance of time in making snap judgment. The detailed description on Ekman’s coding and the autistic patient, though interesting, seems a bit too clumsy and sidetracked the theme of this chapter. <br />After reading this book, not all the questions in my mind are solved, but it encourage me to read further in this area. I would recommend this book to everyone who want to know more about how instinct works, when does instinct work best. And also, to those who want to know more about oneself.

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  Ellery said on Aug 30, 2009 | Add your feedback

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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 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  Could we recognize a piece of art, or tell for sure that a couple is in the middle of a crisis or declare that a person is telling the truth or is lying in a blink?

  The reply is: it is possible. There are experts who are able to judge whether they are in front of a fake, a couple in the middle of ... (continue)

  Could we recognize a piece of art, or tell for sure that a couple is in the middle of a crisis or declare that a person is telling the truth or is lying in a blink?

  The reply is: it is possible. There are experts who are able to judge whether they are in front of a fake, a couple in the middle of a crisis, or that a person is telling the truth or not. What they have in common is that they trained themselves to listen to their heart and intuition (in seconds) without relying on their eyes only or on their prejudices and be right. The process that everyone of them use is the thin-slicing one.

  This is a very fascinating book on one of the most intriguing human abilities: know what's really going on simply in a blink.

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  Elena said on Feb 15, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  interesting but...

  ...a bit repetitive.

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  Cinzia said on Oct 23, 2011 | 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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• English Books
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• Edition: 1st
• ISBN-10: 073945529X
• ISBN-13: 9780739455296
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2005
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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