blink the power of thinking without thinking book

He added, “We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. In one of his most famous writings on the subject, ‘The Purpose of Education,’ the young Morehouse student wrote, “The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” King, who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, thought and cared deeply about the role of education in social justice. He taught a social philosophy course at his alma mater, Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1962, filling his lectures with references to Plato and Rousseau. As a 15-year-old in 1944, he worked on a Connecticut tobacco plantation and the future preacher boasted to his parents in a letter that he was head of the religious department and led study sessions for his fellow workers. Though his most famous messages came from the pulpit and the podium, King also briefly led in the classroom and often spoke on education. 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. Here, too, are great failures of 'blink': the election of Warren Harding 'New Coke' and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. 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. 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?

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. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us.

Blink the power of thinking without thinking book