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- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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The Tipping Point
- How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 780
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book by a guy who follows his own advice
- By Jeff Alpaugh on 2018-03-14
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 624
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another great look at the way we look at life.
- By Rob on 2018-11-07
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,925
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,557
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 232
The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,993
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,897
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,871
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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zero insight
- By catherine on 2019-10-27
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 782
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 779
Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- By Spinningwheelgirl on 2021-04-30
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Tipping Point
- How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 780
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 773
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book by a guy who follows his own advice
- By Jeff Alpaugh on 2018-03-14
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 624
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another great look at the way we look at life.
- By Rob on 2018-11-07
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,925
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,557
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 232
The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,993
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,897
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,871
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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zero insight
- By catherine on 2019-10-27
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 782
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 779
Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- By Spinningwheelgirl on 2021-04-30
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Tipping Point
- How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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wonderfully thought provoking
- By Kyle on 2021-09-22
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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I Hate the Ivy League
- Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevant and informative
- By Anonymous User on 2023-06-04
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Blink!
- Die Macht des Moments
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Alexander Bolte
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Internationaler Bestseller vom Autor des "Überflieger: Warum manche Menschen erfolgreich sind - und andere nicht" und "The Tipping Point". Erst denken, dann handeln? Falsch!, sagt Malcolm Gladwell. Denn die Intuition kann in Bruchteilen von Sekunden Entscheidungen treffen, die besser sind als das Ergebnis langer Überlegungen oder Studien. Blink! nennt Malcolm Gladwell die Intuition der ersten zwei Sekunden.
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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Sources of Power
- How People Make Decisions (The MIT Press)
- Written by: Gary A. Klein
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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A modern classic about how people really make decisions: Drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis. Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into six languages, has been cited in professional journals that range from Journal of Marketing Research to Journal of Nursing, and is mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink.
Written by: Gary A. Klein
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Think Again
- The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- Written by: Adam Grant
- Narrated by: Adam Grant
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 875
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 864
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Woke academic with a bit of scientific insight.
- By Norm on 2021-03-09
Written by: Adam Grant
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Written by: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very difficult to follow in audio format
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-10-06
Written by: Daniel Kahneman
Publisher's Summary
The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making - from number-one best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell.
In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. 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. 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?
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. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. 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.
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
What the critics say
2005 Quill Award Nominee
"Gladwell's groundbreaking explication of a key aspect of human nature is enlightening, provocative, and great fun to read." (Booklist)
"Entertaining and illuminating." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Alexandre L'Écuyer
- 2019-12-07
Interesting and well told, but.
As usual, Malcolm Gladwell delivers a phenomenal audiobook. I'd just read Talking to Strangers right before starting, and I was really excited.
But. Gladwell's story suffers from two things; one is spaghetti storytelling, as some stories struggle to corroborate one another and near the 2/3rds, you feel the pace suffer because the story you're being told with great detail doesn't match with the theory behind it. The case of the police shooting, for example, had little to do with "mind reading", nor to autism, not really. However all three are presented as illustrating the same phenomenon when they clearly don't, and you just kind of sit there listening, wondering when he'll change course.
The second, maybe worse, is scientific myopia. In other words, he often presents evidence in a somewhat biased and "pop psychology" way to support what he's saying, and it made me cringe once or twice. Doubly worse when he contradicts his points made in his other work!
I wouldn't trust what he's presenting, and that hurts the book a lot. Despite that, though, damn good book.
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- Brian
- 2020-07-18
Hard to cross reference his research, read chomsky
He mentions many things in research with detail, but hard to find the source on his study, let alone his contact information is hard to find as well. He pretty much goes really detail in an idea, it sounds legit, and interesting, but its not really scientfic. Most of his work excludes and skips scientific reasoning and research.
The more you speak about something, eventually it seems to self validate itself, but in actually it's not.
In all his work he tries to skip scientific part, but makes it seem like its scientific. He creates an illusion in his writting that its very scientific. His style of writting is pretty much a guy who read a bunch of stuff and is explaining in his own words. But then again some things he mentions, he mentions in detail and even google can't find some of his gathered sources. I am more curious how got to the top of his field now.
His work is an illusion, he is pretty much social engineering interest in people to like his writtting. That is something more important to read from him, how to social engineer. I hope he creates a book like this in the near future, because he is evidently really good at it.
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- Andrew Muller
- 2018-10-23
Absolute insight
This is my 2nd Malcolm Gladwell book. I'm going to buy all the rest after this.
Blink shows you as many sides of the internal processing problem as you could have.
How does internalized racism or sexism work? It's not how either political party would popularly have you believe.
It goes far beyond politics though, and gives you a way to intuitively think about how your brain comes to snap judgments, and what you can do to make those judgments better.
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- Logan
- 2018-09-13
Great book to read before the rest
I loved the book and it was great to listen to in the car and walking around in my headphones. If you’re just getting introduced to Malcom Gladwell then I recommend this as your first read and then to continue with the rest. If you’re looking to better yourself and open your mind then these are the books for you.
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- Aqueena
- 2018-09-19
Malcolm does it Again
You need to read this book, if you don’t you’re missing out! Malcolm finds the most amazing studies to support arguments on issues that are at the core of our function as human beings.
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- Alan Smithson
- 2019-08-07
A beautiful book read as only Malcolm Gladwell can
Malcolm Gladwell has a gift for observing the world in ways most of us don't...until we read his books which unlock new potential in our human interactions.
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- Brandon
- 2019-06-23
Excellent
I loved listening to this audio book. It really is a captivating story of our innate ability to trust our subconscious mind. Tapping into that inherent knowing has helped me greatly in my life and it's amazing how it's told through this book. I would highly recommend reading it.
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- MMH Toronto
- 2018-06-13
Another great book by Malcom Gladwell
I read Mr. Gladwell's book "Outliers" and enjoyed it. So when a friend recommended "Blink" I was quick to get the book.
This book explains why we know what we know, when we know it. Not on a concious level, but subconsciously within the first 2 seconds of a new experience.
If you have considered intuition, gut feeling or instinct to be one of the decision making tools you employ, I recommend reading this book.
Well reasoned, well written and an easy enjoyable flow.
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- KP Express
- 2023-01-11
Great
Loved how each incidence evolved, showing how we can be misguided by long & quick judgement of a situation.
About the author, enjoyed listening to the author reading his own book
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- Scott Mabee
- 2023-01-05
Mind excerising
Excellent book. Love his books. This one makes you think constantly as you liaten to it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Danny
- 2005-04-21
Interesting read with contradictory messages
Going into this book, I was expecting concrete answers to the questions that this book proposes to the readers: 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?
Unfortunately, it does not answer these questions. The only real conclusion that the book comes to is that split-second decisions are in fact made by people, that these decisions are controlled by our subconscious (which can be highly influenced by external conditions), and that the decisions can have positive or negative results.
The first half of the book touts how powerful "thin-slicing" can be with several examples of various experts in various fields of work that are able to do this. The tone here seems to be to learn to listen to your subconscious.
Near the middle of the book is a few chapters on "mind reading", through facial expressions, which is interesting but again doesn't give you enough information to make any of it useful or practical.
The end of the book seems to say that thin-slicing is a bad thing, which causes us to make snap judgments based on race and gender biases. And that the only way you can tame this flawed decision making process is to become an expert in your field and to always realize that your subconscious is at work in your decision making process. Well, if you are an expert in your field, and you are always dissecting your decisions to look for your subconscious influences, then you are NOT making split-second decisions.
Overall it is a light read (listen) and is informative at a very high, psychology 101, level. It leaves many questions unanswered. Don't expect to take anything too practical or usable away from the material though.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Reney
- 2005-11-20
Be careful with logical leaps
I enjoyed the objective experimental analysis results. The leaps into public policy, biased political inferences, and obsessive defense of an obscure music artist whom "regular" people don't realize is actually a great artist turned me off. I'm obviously in the minority based on the current rating of this book. I expect liberal leaning people to generally love the book and conversely right leaning people to rate it lower. Back to what I like. Good social/psychological science backed up by experimentation. I especially liked the proposal that quantity of data does not correlate with better decision making and, in fact, can confuse the decision maker. Overall I recommend the read but I'd like to get a book like this and not be able to tell the political leanings of the author.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Kevin
- 2005-08-07
Blink is a deception
This is a classic bait and switch. It is categorized as science and garnished with a glowing publisher's summary that indicated we would learn the mechanics of brilliant decision making. I did not expect to be lectured to about ethnic predjudice. I must say that the authur has a point but it is not why I bought the book. I did not finish the book. The first hour was interesting but the middle third was suspiciously pointing to a political agenda. I felt duped when the authur brought up Dr. King and I quit the book.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Joshua
- 2005-08-28
Great read
The first review on here is generally accurate in terms of book contents, the book doesn't necessarily have the contradictions it suggests. But it may not offer the solutions that everyone hopes will help them find the mysteries of the universe, either. The problem is that where science is concerned many think that there are always concrete answers, but that is simply the fartheset thing from the truth.
What this book does do is have a lengthy discussion about the things that influence our choices and informs our decisions. There is no firm answer because everyone makes decisions based on a different set of experiences, even if many of them are common.
While perhaps a bit long in a place or two, the author takes a great deal of time to fully present his thoughts which are often complex. I thought while much of the information here is known, it is presented in a way that helps readers understand his concepts.
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- Liz
- 2005-11-03
encore!
I just finished Blink and I am back at Audible to purchase The Tipping Point. Although this book is rather light reading, I am familiar with enough of the science to know it is solid. He makes the work of some brilliant, cutting-edge scientists accessible to a range of readers. I found the book provocative and would recommended it for anyone who is in a position to make important snap decisions (firefighters, police, nurses, paramedics, etc.). Contemplating the situations described in this book has changed my perspective of the world and how I interact with it. For example, as a college professor, I paid special attention to the first few minutes of class while introducing myself to new students, planning how I projected my persona. I created the image I wanted the students to have.
My only criticism is that it seemed rather repetitive after a while and could have been much shorter. Yet, I could understand that he was recapping and clustering points he made in the text. I would imagine that this technique enables those for whom this information is new to fully digest it.
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- Warren
- 2005-08-28
Blink
The premise of this audiobook was intriguing; unfortunately, only a small percentage of the text (2% ?) directly speaks to this premise. The remaining 98% consists of painfully long, drawn-out analogies and tenuous examples.
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- Jeremy
- 2008-12-31
Buy it now! Or not.. Trust your instincts.
I was first introduced to Malcolm Gladwell a few weeks ago on a podcast for the WNYC program Radiolab. The episode is called "Choice" and if you are new to Gladwell, i would suggest you start there. You'll be hooked.
The negative reviews i've read seem to have felt misled. As if Gladwell were expected to present some unifying theory of intuition. Yet, n a way, he actually does, just not scientifically. What he does present are thought provoking anecdotes about the under appreciated importance of our instinct.. The patches on the quilt missing the thread of your perception. There is lots left to be learned from the experience of others, and luckily there's authors such as Gladwell who will find them.
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- Tehzeeb
- 2005-09-14
Good topic ... excruciatingly long discourse
As has been mentioned earlier, the fundamental premise of the book (i.e. first imperessions matter) is sound and interesting. However, what detracts from the value of the book is the endless analogies and digressions to prove this fundamental premise. The book could have easily been 1/4th the size and not missed the point. Nevertheless well written and well read by the author.
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- stinWo
- 2008-10-18
Worthless
The premise of this book is that people have intuition. Of course everyone has intuition!! So you'd think that this book would discuss how to improve this instinctual ability by offering tips or methods; NOPE. This book is filled with stories of people who had experiences of intuition and nothing else. If you enjoy listening to the intellectual NPR type who love spouting off words and descriptions that make them sound smart but never leads them to a valid point then go ahead and waste your money. Otherwise, this book is utterly worthless and void of any useful information. Anyone in their right mind will be left wanting and begging for this babbling idiot to finally get to a point.
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- J Kaufman
- 2009-06-18
A great communicator
As usual Mr. Gladwell has impressive insights. This time he looks at the power of 'thin slicing' which is essentially making a snap judgment about something. The key to that blink reaction being accurate though has much to do with the observers expertise in an area (you need to have some) and the context in which they are making the determination (you need to have a neutral, unbiased way to make the judgment or it may be unavoidably affected).
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- C. MA
- 2018-03-20
Good read if you are new to the subject
This book is a great overview on how our subconscious can work to our benefit/disadvantage. It does not go into details but covers a lot of concepts. It’s given me things to ponder and subjects that I’d like to explore.
Might not be suited for listeners/readers searching for ways to improve themselves.
As an audiobook, this book is great. The author is the narrator and it feels like he is talking to you.
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- priscilla stanley
- 2017-08-27
Best audiobook I ever listened to
I enjoyed every bit of it. The story is incredibly interesting and entertaining. I learned so many things from this book, it is impressive. The voice is great, with real attention to rythm and flow. I played it x1.25 speed to get it perfect to my taste. Congratulations for this masterpiece!!!
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- Bwanakeye Eric
- 2019-10-23
Eye opening
A very interesting read that has opened my eyes on one aspect of why we do what we do and Ho we make decisions.
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- mikus
- 2018-05-14
Unique and well presented
None of the books of Malcolm Gladwell is a disappointment and 'blink' is not an exception here. It for sure isn't as mindblowing as the 'tipping point', but there is a lot of fresh ideas and unique topics that are clearly worth studying.
You can be sure to find a lot of examples and references to support the author's theories and some findings are truly astonishing. At the same time, I really missed a good summary chapter, as the booked seemed to end unexpectedly.
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- marshallkappel
- 2017-11-07
Bland, generic, monotonous
Some of the most basic thinking disguised as pseudo-intellectual insight. Basic. Boring voice and speed.
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