Book Review Of The Book Blink The Power Of Thinking

In Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, “The power of thinking without thinking” is the central idea that Gladwell conveys through his many anecdotes alongside his scientific evidence. In Blink, though scientific evidence comes into play a lot, most of his evidence can be found daily if we examine ourselves. When the psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson did the “priming” experiment with black college students and the twenty questions taken from the Graduate Record Examination, a test for entry in graduate school, upon making them identify their race just “that simple action was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement- and the number of items they got right was cut in half. (Page 56, Chapter 2. ) This can bring us to the notion that if you can be “primed” to be inferior, you can be “primed” to be superior. As Gladwell put it, “If a white student from a prestigious private

In "What Meets the Eye," by Daniel Akst, the author argues that looks in fact do matter, and he evaluates the fact that we all know that looks matter, even more than we think. He mentions that we try to deny that looks do not matter, but on the inside, we do know that looks matter and according to him, looks are very important.

In “Ways of Seeing”, John Berger, an English art critic, argues that images are important for the present-day by saying, “No other kind of relic or text from the past can offer such direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at other times. In this respect images are more precise and richer literature” (10). John Berger allowed others to see the true meaning behind certain art pieces in “Ways of Seeing”. Images and art show what people experienced in the past allowing others to see for themselves rather than be told how an event occurred. There are two images that represent the above claim, Arnold Eagle and David Robbins’ photo of a little boy in New York City, and Dorothea Lange’s image of a migratory family from Texas; both were taken during the Great Depression.

This true story is based on two African American males who grew up with many similarities but landed a completely different outcome in life. One of the main similarities is their name, Wes Moore. Both Wes Moore’s grew up in a fatherless home, born in the same neighborhood of Baltimore during the 1970’s, and both were handcuffed before age 11. The same question remains. How did one end up as a scholar, veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader and the other one end up serving a life sentence for a robbery that ended in the murder of a police officer? The book reflects how developmental psychology is implemented by focusing on the physical, social, and cultural environments influence developments that occur over time.

Gladwell presents an interesting concept of “thin slicing” I definitely recommend this book for others to read. I enjoyed reading this book. Malcolm Gladwell was right when he stated on the back cover of the book, that reading this book would change the way I understood every decision I made. It has changed the way I think about making decisions.

In the book, The Conscious Reader, there are many stories by many different authors. All these stories are different but at the same time they are alike. They all in some way deal with education. Whether it is using education, gaining education, or giving education, they all have their way to show that education is important.

Thoughts can be fleeting, however some of the feelings resulting from thought and can have a long lasting impact on the mental state of a person. In my metacognitive exploration I found an interesting comparison between the way in which I think and approach my past feelings and the methods which Tim O’Brien, from The Things They Carried, and Paul D from Beloved express their thinking about the past. I have discovered that the expression of thoughts, including memories and feelings, is the key to a healthy mental state of a person.

In “Blink”, Malcolm Gladwell synthesizes a compelling dissertation that decisions made instantly are just as effective, if not, superior

Many people may say that this book is full of a bunch of crap. They may say that Gladwell takes

Mel Levine’s book, A Mind at a Time, describes many aspects of cognitive psychology and attempts to apply them to the educational system for young children. This book also makes suggestions for parents that have children with cognitive difficulties. The chapters in this book are designated to various aspects of cognitive psychology as they pertain to children. This paper focuses on chapter six in A Mind at a Time, which is titled “Making Arrangements: Our Spatial and Sequential Ordering Systems.” This is a very interesting chapter because it incorporates many aspects of cognitive psychology. In this chapter, Levine focuses on how children organize their world in terms of learning, thinking,

I confess—I initially thought In the Blink of an Eye was going to be a pretentious, drawn-out book about the technical side of editing. A great sense of dread flooded my body when I looked at the amount of pages I had to read. It is not the thickest book I have ever read, but I guessed the subject matter would make reading it a long process.

Whilst entering a bar that your friend recommended, a shady looking guy brushes your shoulder and gives you a strange look, you immediately develop a sense of discomfort and question your friend’s taste in bars. What do you do? You decide to walk in anyway and ask for a drink, a stranger then sits next to you and starts to engage in conversation. You are immediately attracted to this person and develop a sense that they are cultured and educated. Do you respond? What do you say? As the night closes this person asks for your number and suggests meeting again soon. You trust their intentions but you just met them, do you give them your number?

“At The Mind’s Limit” is a series of essays written by Jean Amery, a German born Jew who survived the holocaust, who gives the reader a very interesting perspective into the mind of a persecuted Jew from 1935 forward. Amery does not consider himself a religious Jew or one who follows any Jewish traditions. In fact, he did not know that Yiddish was a language until he was 18. So Amery describes the events leading up to and following the holocaust through the eyes of an “intellectual” and tries to find out whether being an “intellectual” helped or hindered his mental and spiritual capacity as he experienced

“As a blind man might find a jewel in heaps of rubbish, this Awakening Mind has somehow appeared in me. This is the elixir of life, born to end death in the world. This is the inexhaustible treasure…. The supreme medicine, curing the sickness of the world”. What is the Awakening Mind? It can be described to be a source that is produced for the welfare of the world. Sometimes described to be a tree that constantly produces fruit, never withering. It is the only existence that is eternal amongst the emptiness of the universe. The Awakening Mind offers sanctuary and immeasurable expertise like unique caravan leaders to those who seek it. This limitless “jewel” is sought after by the mind, which is only possible when the mind understands the truth

Having established the fact that rapid cognition is not always as accurate as one would want it to be, Gladwell now goes on to the topic of reading the minds of others just by looking