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Books : Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingIn association with Amazon.comby: Malcolm Gladwell  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780739455296 ISBN: 073945529X Label: Little, Brown & Co. Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Co. Number Of Pages: 285 Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Studio: Little, Brown & Co. Sales Rank: 215944 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Some good points.There are some relevant points in this book. The main point that I gathered from this reading is that our unconscious does some of the thinking for us, and decisions relating to this thinking are some of the best. However, if people were to think why they made these decisions, then they might not understand why they made the decision they made. Some of these decisions are based on intuition and result in good choices. I believe this book to be the scraps left over from the Tipping ... Read More Rating:  - More relevant than ever with recent electionThis book is about impressions, biases, judgments, decision making and nonverbal communication. If you want to understand the Obama phenomenon and where its headed, read the chapter "The Warren Harding Error". Good book. Rating:  - Is this a book?I am not sure why this is a book. Anecdotes, anecdots, anecdotes.... Is there anything here that is actually researched and studied? A hundred stories does not a coherent theory make. This is typical Gladwell, big statements, good stories, poorly thought through thesis, bold assertions with no proof, keep cheerily going on, one book to the next. Good for killing time on a beach, but why would I pay for this advice? Rating: - Thought Provoking with Interesting Stories - bit confusedBased around the concept of thin-slicing, this book promotes the idea that your initial thoughts / gut feeling are often the right way to proceed (but not always). There are many case studies to hammer in the point and look at it from different perspectives. I feel the concept was a bit oversold, confused, and not pulled together nicely at the end. In terms of the fundamental concept that we can learn to make better and faster decisions when we filter out excess data, I agree. This ... Read More Rating: - Insights into raceThe people who reviewed this book poorly may not have to deal with race issues. Even though I'm Navajo, Gladwell makes some astute humanitarian and race observations that have whirled around in my head for years. He makes affirmations about my theories of race and our denials of our repressed feelings. I did the test of associating good with African American image, and I even struggled with it. I liked Gladwell's honest approach. He also exhibits a great writing style. Though I read Blink ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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