Matt's review
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Ditto ... well-written review.
Matt's review
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Matt's review
rating:
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 situations where we don't have a lot of information.
Except not really.
Basically the book gives scientific and anecdotal evidence on why rapid cognition can be both a good and bad thing, without offering us much advise on how to tell the difference between situations where we should or shouldn't trust our instincts.
There are many times when I felt that Gladwell contradicted himself. To support his "rapid cognition is good" section of the book, he uses an...more
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 situations where we don't have a lot of information.
Except not really.
Basically the book gives scientific and anecdotal evidence on why rapid cognition can be both a good and bad thing, without offering us much advise on how to tell the difference between situations where we should or shouldn't trust our instincts.
There are many times when I felt that Gladwell contradicted himself. To support his "rapid cognition is good" section of the book, he uses an...more
Ditto ... well-written review.