blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell

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blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) by Malcolm Gladwell. Also our book log entry. Overview: Terrific book. Very readable. Insightful about practical Cognitive Psychology and Personality Psychology, as well as Biopsychology. Includes one of the best impressions for a non-autist of how a person with autism experiences situations with people. Teaches in the instantaneous-reaction time scale (just outside the scope of Leslie Cameron-Bandler's excellent Know How) how decisions are made, what can hinder us from making decisions, and how to help acquire relevant aptitudes. Read it.

Chapters:

• Introduction. The Statue that Didn't Look Right

1. The Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way
2. The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions
3. The Warren Harding Error: Why we Fall for Tall, Dark, and Handsome Men
4. Paul Van Riper's Big Victory: Creating Structure for Spontaneity
5. Kenna's Dilemma: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Ask People What They Want
6. Seven Seconds in the Bronx: The Delicate Art of Mind Reading

• Conclusion. Listening with your Eyes: The Lessons of Blink

Chapters:

Some key quotes to give the sense of each chapter.

From the back of the CD version (read by Gladwell):

"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."

Introduction. The Statue that Didn't Look Right

From the back of the CD version (read by Gladwell):

"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."

1. The Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way

2. The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions

3. The Warren Harding Error: Why we Fall for Tall, Dark, and Handsome Men

4. Paul Van Riper's Big Victory: Creating Structure for Spontaneity

5. Kenna's Dilemma: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Ask People What They Want

6. Seven Seconds in the Bronx: The Delicate Art of Mind Reading

Conclusion. Listening with your Eyes: The Lessons of Blink

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