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  by fr1nkl3

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

2009-08-24

  by mhowe

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: unknown

Description: Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like....

2008-06-19

  by astrasoul7

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

2008-04-24

  by drewknew2

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Type: documentary

Status: neutral

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

2008-01-06

  by wasp1028

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Type: documentary

Status: neutral

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

2007-12-01

  by noelani

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Type: educational

Status: finished

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Tags: psychology intuition

2007-07-26

  by passionate_dream

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

2007-07-06

  by ldelaney

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Type: educational

Status: liked

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Tags: psychology nonfiction true

2007-01-03

  by smithson

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: unknown

Description: Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like....

2006-12-27

  by seas

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Type: scientific

Status: liked

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Tags: business communication people audiobook

Description: Books is a list of facts and explanation of good or bad cases of people communication, suchBooks is a list of facts and explanation of good or bad cases of people communication, such as reading faces, gestures and generally reading others mind....

2006-12-24