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The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

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English
Penguin
14 February 2006
An art expert sees a $10 million sculpture and instantly spots it as a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A firefighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person.

This international bestselling book is all about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of 'blink', showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you'll never think about thinking in the same way again.

"Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted." The New York Times

"Compelling, fiendishly clever." The Evening Standard

"Brilliant! The implications for business, let alone love, are vast." The Observer

"Superb... this wonderful book should be compulsory reading." The New Statesman

"Blink might just change your life." Esquire

"Should you buy this book? You already know the answer to that." Independent on Sunday

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9780141014593
ISBN 10:   0141014598
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. His other international bestselling books are Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals and reveals the secrets of their success, and What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocative and entertaining New Yorker pieces.

Reviews for Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Compelling, fiendishly clever * Evening Standard * Blink might just change your life * Esquire * Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted * The New York Times *


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