Blink The Power of Thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - Paperback

A must read. Helps you analyze situations and people at first instance

The book came in with different cover page design and with different publication date. Even book size is different than the one than at is advertised. In other words, I ordered a book, and I received another.

Malcolm Gladwell explores how we make decisions, especially snap decisions and comes to some very interesting and profound conclusions. As an analytical sort of person I tend to rely on gathering as much information as possible before making a decision, and then still taking my time about it. The book shows that sometimes we can have too much information and that sometimes the snap judgements, aided by extensive experience, can be more accurate. Gladwell also looks at how instinctive judgements can be badly lead, the causes for these and the sort of unwanted results, even tragedies, this can lead to. His conclusion sets out ways we can overcome biases caused by these conditioned judgements. This all done in Gladwell’s incredibly engaging style of wonderfully spun true stories that illustrate something profound. Even if you learn nothing from the book, it’s worth reading it just the cases and stories and how he tells them. All in all, it’s wonderfully enthralling and thought-provoking reading.

Great book and it arrived in great conditions

Lo compré porque me salió anunciado en un libro de árboles, y me atrajeron las reseñas. Es fácil de leer, y te mantiene enganchado porque usa anécdotas del mundo real y te las va analizando "científicamente". También te da algunos consejos para "mejorar" tu intuición.

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Being a great fan of „outliers“ by the same author I was really curious about „blink“ which means the incredible power of subconscious mind which is doing a lot for each and everyone of us everyday. The first part of the book exactly does this: presenting what a well trained subconscious mind can do, how it influences us everyday, how it leads our decisions and how often we do not know why we decide how we decide (and often do so correctly) – using tons of very illustrative examples and stories. The second part of the book goes into detail on how easy our very powerful subconscious can be (easily) fooled – and that we even fall into the same traps every time, again by presenting examples and stories out of real life. This awesome book is closed with a wonderful lessons learned chapter on what can be taken out of this book. Clear, well to understand language, great examples, available online material, detailed notes and index section make the book a great read which enables the interested read to dig deeper into this awesome topic. Recommend this book for readers who want to understand more about themselves as well as their environment, read this! It will turn some of your learnings upside down. 5 Stars.