Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingIn his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, 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

In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 01/11/2005
ISBN: 9780316172325
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.62w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2005 pg. 23
Booklist 09/01/2004 pg. 2
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2004 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2004 pg. 948
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2004 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 11/01/2004 pg. 52
Library Journal 11/15/2004 pg. 75
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 37
Quill & Quire 12/01/2004 pg. 25
Vanity Fair 01/01/2005 pg. 38
Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2005 pg. 92
USA Today 01/10/2005 pg. 1
New York Times 01/16/2005 pg. 1
Library Journal 09/15/2004
Entertainment Weekly 12/30/2005 pg. 150
Time 04/16/2007 pg. 68

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 88713 / Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Reading Level: 8.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13