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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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From any psychologist's point of view, this book is full of contradicting psychological facts. Even as a general reader, I find this book says a lot of things but does not actually tell you what it actually wants to address.
But I love this book for totally different reasons. Firstly, I love case studies with interesting results written by someone who can write in a way you will find the whole experience exhilarating. Secondly, this guy deserves a five star because he is making less known but thought-provoking scientific studies to a much wider audience. Thirdly, nowhere it is mentioned in the title it is a book which teaches you how to think without thinking so it is completely understandable why it shows us both the advantages and disadvantages of snap decision making and it completely leaves to the reader to decide when to do what. Finally, I love non-fiction which uses a lot of anecdotes to state a fact rather just directly stating the fact it wants to address.
I recommend it to anyone who loves to read about interesting psychological studies.
But I love this book for totally different reasons. Firstly, I love case studies with interesting results written by someone who can write in a way you will find the whole experience exhilarating. Secondly, this guy deserves a five star because he is making less known but thought-provoking scientific studies to a much wider audience. Thirdly, nowhere it is mentioned in the title it is a book which teaches you how to think without thinking so it is completely understandable why it shows us both the advantages and disadvantages of snap decision making and it completely leaves to the reader to decide when to do what. Finally, I love non-fiction which uses a lot of anecdotes to state a fact rather just directly stating the fact it wants to address.
I recommend it to anyone who loves to read about interesting psychological studies.
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“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“when you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act â€� and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment â€� are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Reading Progress
January 1, 2017
– Shelved
January 1, 2017
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 3, 2017
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Started Reading
October 3, 2017
– Shelved as:
recommended
October 3, 2017
– Shelved as:
self-help
December 22, 2017
– Shelved as:
non-fiction
December 22, 2017
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Finished Reading
