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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc) 
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Publisher: Hachette Audio
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1586217194
ISBN-13: 9781586217198
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Description: Social commentator Malcolm Gladwell once again takes the pulse of contemporary experience and, in BLINK, comes up with this enlightening exploration of the role of rapid thinking in everyday life. Gladwell shows how what we call snap jud...
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Synopsis
Social commentator Malcolm Gladwell once again takes the pulse of contemporary experience and, in BLINK, comes up with this enlightening exploration of the role of rapid thinking in everyday life. Gladwell shows how what we call snap judgments, first impressions, or instinct are often right on target and get to the core truths. He reveals that experts call this process "thin-slicing"--the ability to dive for truth the way a basketball player grabs a loose ball on the court, cutting through layers and levels of knowledge that resist tortured analysis. He reports on current research in the fields of science and psychology, and their applications in marketing. Gladwell writes of the marriage therapist who can discern, by listening to three minutes of the parties talking to each other, whether their marriage will last, and how thin-slicing operates in a job interview or when an insurance company wants to identify which doctors are candidates for lawsuits. It might be a sense of structures and patterns, or a Sherlock Holmesian sensitivity to the messages we send out, or just the ability to filter out bad signals and bad information. Gladwell draws examples from the home, office, and school, and proceeds with care and caution through his material; his exposition is as engaging as it was in his previous book, THE TIPPING POINT. After reading Gladwell you will more likely trust your first impressions, but wonder what others are thinking, too.

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Publication Date:2005-01-01
Narrated by:Malcolm Gladwell
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Height:5.5 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Industry Reviews
"BLINK moves quickly through a series of delightful stories, all about the backstage mental process we call intuition....My first impression of BLINK--in blurb-speak--was 'Fascinating! Eye-opening! Important!'....If you want to trust my snap judgment, buy this book: you'll be delighted."
New York Times Book Review - David Brooks (01/16/2005)

"The author's great strength lies in his stories, and here he crafts a number of engaging ones....All these stories are nicely written and most inform and entertain at the same time...."
Kirkus (10/01/2005)

"[A] lively, wide-ranging pop treatise."
Entertainment Weekly (12/30/2005)

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      Good, Not Great, Book about Culture and Intuition
    Review created: 11/28/08
    6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

    In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell offers his account of humanity's seemingly instantaneous judgment in critical situations. The book features a series of fascinating anecdotal case studies, skilled interweavings of psychological experiments, explanations, and unexpected connections which have become part of Gladwell's writing style since Tipping Point.

    At the outset of Blink, he illustrates how incredibly complex decisions are often made in the matter of seconds: experts on Greek art, who had no vested interest in judging a rare 6th-century sculpture of a youth as authentic, sensed immediately that it was fake. But Gladwell points out that if expertise, or mere accumulated experiences sufficed, humans could unerringly trust these decisions made as rapidly as the blink of an eye, but, as he illustrates through several counterpuntal stories, such blinks can also be deceptive. It should be noted that he seems to stretch some of his examples to conform to his blink-of-an-eye theory.

    Gladwell is an impressive synthesizer and is, in that sense, a model for both teachers and students. Because of his skills as a journalist, the book is accurate and informative -- complete with numerous anecdotes. Blink is a satisfying and informative read, but not as scholarly as some might have you believe.


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      Malcom Gladwell's Blink is a fast, excellent read
    Review created: 09/22/05
    8 of 10 people found this review helpful.

    "Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking" is Malcom Gladwell's challenge for readers and society to follow intuition and glance. Gladwell cleverly and powerfully outlines the power of snap judgments - the key, as he puts it, is to analyze behaviors and situations using "thin slices" and "adaptive unconsciousness".

    The struggle is simple and prevalent in business, life, relationships etc - simply put, people tend to over analyze and over think. Though this is a natural inclination, it is dangerous and time-consuming. Gladwell challenges us to act differently - but training ourselves and our surrounding to quickly adapt and interpret. But unlike most self-help books, Gladwell doesn't begin and end with a challenge - he walks readers through the need, the solution, etc - all in a thoughtful, well-developed manner.

    I encourage readers not to form an opinion of the book based on the first chapter - which is slow and underdeveloped. The fundamental trouble with Gladwell's book (though I quite enjoyed it and found it quite powerful) is that, like all similar books, must be taken for what its worth. While its dangerous to always overthink - its equally dangerous to always rely on the adaptive unconscious. The true answer lays somewhere between the two extremes - Gladwell does a fine job allowing you to arrive there and I believe that is the goal he set out to achieve.

    Also recommended:
    The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
    The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Patrick Lencioni


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