Blink

Drawing on cutting edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you ll understand every decision you make Never again will you think about thinking the same way.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 Drawing on cutting edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you understand every decision you make Never again will you think about thinking the same way. New Read Books Blink By Malcolm Gladwell – kino-fada.fr Here s Blink in a nutshell Split decisions can be good better than decisions where we take a lot of time to carefully weigh our options and use scientific evidence Except when they re not.Rapid cognition is an exciting and powerful way to use your brain s quick, intuitive capabilities to make stunningly accurate decisions, and can even lead you to have better success in sports, business and politics Except when it won t.We should learn to trust our snap judgments, even in seemingly complex si Here s Blink in a nutshell Split decisions can be good better than decisions where we take a lot of time to carefully weigh our options and use scientific evidence Except when they re not.Rapid cognitio...As an empirical psychologist by training, I get very annoyed at journalists who simplify things to the point that its no longer even remotely accurate Such is the case for Blink This is especially annoying to me, because the book describes my area of research specialization If you re interested in a fun read, Gladwell is certainly an engaging author If you re looking for something that accurately describes the research, I d recommend looking elsewhere For example, Scott Plous s the psychol As an empirical psychologist by training, I get very annoyed at journalists who simplify things to the point that its no longer even remotely accurate Such is the case for Blink This is especially annoying to me, because the book describes my area of research specialization If you re interested in a fun read, Gladwell is certainly an engaging author If you re looking for something that accurately describes the research, I d recommend...Blink is what all the stories, case studies, and arguments add up to an attempt to understand the magical and mysterious thing called Judgement Its basic premise is split second decisions snap judgements how they can be good and bad Gladwell suggests split seconds decisions are better than the decisions where we take considerable time to weigh our choices and options He points out that our mind figure things, people, et al in a blink of an eye And it is often that these snap judgeme Blink is what all the stories, case studies, and arguments add up to an attempt to understand the magical and mysterious thing called Judgement Its basic premise is split second decisions snap judgements how they can be good and bad Gladwell suggests split seconds decisions are better than the decisions where we take considerab...I think this book wins my prize for Most Easily Misinterpreted to Serve Personal Agendas Gladwell gets so into the interesting details of the case he s building, he really doesn t emphasize the final conclusions of the book at all, leaving people to think that the interesting details are the whole point, which is unfortunate But then again, I m not 100% sure I got the whole point.Most of the folks I know think that this book is about how a person s gut instincts can be a better read of a situa I think this book wins my prize for Most Easily Misinterpreted to Serve Personal Agendas Gladwell gets so into the interesting ...I would put this book in the category of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point By the same author as the latter title, Malcolm Gladwell, the purpose of this book is to weigh the advantages as well as the disadvantages of the power of the mind s ability to unconsciously leap to conclusions based on what is seen in the proverbial blink of an eye While I have read some negative reviews of Gladwell s book, mostly citing that he fails to inform the reader how to know when to go with your gut and w I would put this boo...O, to have the writing career of Malcolm Gladwell The man pulls interesting case studies from academic research and news headlines, spins it into a book under a general theme, and blammo He has a bestseller This formula worked for him with The Tipping Point and then Blink. Blink is a compelling read, despite its weak overall theme, which is that sometimes split second decisions are good and sometimes they re bad, and we need to learn when to trust our first impressions and when to discount th O, to have the writing career of Malcolm Gladwell The man pulls interesting case studies from academic...Much like the reason behind my majoring in Economics, I like Gladwell because he opens my mind to new ideas and new ways to think Much like Economics, I believe he s far from perfect, but I really enjoy viewing the world through his lens In just about anything, when people start acting as if there is only one way to do something, I stop listening to them This goes for many things, but especially politics If you DO, however, find someone who is omniscient and knows exactly how every policy wi Much like the reason behind my majoring in Economics, I like Gladwell because he opens my mind to new ideas and new ways to think Much like Economics, I believe he s far from perfect, but I really enjoy viewing the world through his lens In just about anything, when people start acting as if there is only one way to do something, I stop listen...This was a big best seller for Gladwell He posits that much of the time we make decisions, reach conclusions in a sort of pre conscious manner that he calls thin slicing That means taking a very small sample, a thin slice, and making a decision immediately based on that information However, it is the case that the ability to evaluate that slice is fed by a lifetime of experience It is not simply, as some, including President Bush the second, might believe, that using one s gut, in the abse This was a big best seller for Gladwell He posits that much of the time we make decisions, reach conclusions in a sort of pre conscious manner th...I generally distrust anyone who says that they go with their gut But when the company I work for announced a major decision a few years back, I instantly said, This is going to be a huge mistake Smart people had examined the deal backwards and forwards for months and thought it was a great idea I had a bad feeling about it that I could only later explain, and I was far from the only one And we were right The entire thing turned out to be a huge disaster I kept thinking a...so i bought this book in boston s logan airport about 10 minutes before i had to board a flight to seattle the bookstore was limited i didn t want to have to work to get interested and the first 100 pages or so did the trick until i realized that gladwell wasn t so much building an argument as telling stories about a certain topic don t get me wrong, i finished the book later back in boston, on the T and it did cover some interesting studies, or i wouldn t have done so but i suspect t so i bought this book in boston s logan airport about 10 minutes before i had to board a flight to seattle the bookstore was limited i didn t want to have to work to get interested and the first 100 pages or so did the trick until i realized that gladwell wasn t so much building an argument as telling stories about a certain topic don t get me wrong, i finished the book later back in boston, on the T and it did cover some interesting studies, or i wouldn t have done so but i suspect the author might ve lacked the attention span necessary to lend this book any coherence meh it was basically a series of loosely related tidbits about snap judgments, none of which led me to conclude that instinct or intuition is significantlyor less reliable than rational deliberation if a point could be gleaned and summarized, i guess it would be that with the right thin slice of information, under the right conditions, instantaneous judgements can be spot on shrug the...

• English
• 21 December 2018
Malcolm Gladwell
• Paperback
• 296 pages
• 0316010669
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink