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While there were some interesting stories in the book, I found it to be repetitive and lacking in purpose. It could be that psych classes prevented the book from being cool new information...but it was annoying that it seemed to be merely a list of anecdotes to illustrate the phenomena without drawing any conclusions from it or taking the information in a new direction.
When I first saw this book I was excited. Another Malcolm Gladwell book. I loved the Tipping Point. But Blink is a very different kind of book than The Tipping Point. It is less accessible and unlike the information and ideas expressed in Tipping Point, I'm uncertain how I could put any of it into practice. Blink is interesting and has valuable insight into how we as humans make decision based on our perceptions and altering those perceptions (positively or negatively) can be impactful to our de
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Fine, lots of evidence -- but I didn't care about the main point. So we make snap judgements, and often they are right. I knew that, and this didn't really help me to understand why. A bunch of anecdotes supporting it does nothing for me, and the evalutionary evidence could have been summarized in an essay and been more powerful.
The one part that did stick with me was about the people who do research on couples arguing, who can predict within a few second of watching a filmed argument whether th ...more
The one part that did stick with me was about the people who do research on couples arguing, who can predict within a few second of watching a filmed argument whether th ...more
Interesting--I especially liked the section that talked about the war games.
I learned a lot from this book. Very insightful. The book is like his other right - a quick point followed by several stories that are very well told. I will never give his books a 5-star - too many stories, too repetitious - but I like that he makes me think and look at the world differently.
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