Thomas Rydahl

Malcolm Gladwell

Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book 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? How do our brains really work? Why are the best decisions often impossible to explain to others?

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Blink

Dhrumil Patel

Kyler Phillips

We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it.

When it comes to the task of understanding ourselves and our world, I think we pay too much attention to those grand themes and too little to the particulars of those fleeting moments.

In the negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other.

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.

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.

It’s one thing to acknowledge the enormous power of snap judgments and thin slices but quite another to place our trust in something so seemingly mysterious.

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