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.
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