The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking By Malcolm Gladwell

In both The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, literacy and education play a key role. The education of a man gives him power, and can determine his stature or influence in the community. Literacy gives a man an insight to knowledge that can be important. By developing characters with different levels of education, Khaled Hosseini and Harper Lee develop and strengthen the idea that literacy and education are dangerous tools, and can make the difference between life and death. Khaled Hosseini and Harper Lee depict literacy as both helpful and harmful. They also show how being uneducated leads to being taken advantage of. Using these ideas they strengthen the idea of educating and literacy being

Accredited journalist, Malcolm Gladwell, delves into the hidden truth behind the subconscious mind and explores the psychological process of intuitive thinking, both good and bad, in the novel Blink. Gladwell’s purpose is to exploit how the unconscious works and to expose the connection between your intuition and the real world which helps educate the reader on how to develop advanced decision making skills. He adopts an informative and passionate tone in order to establish credibility with his older audience and emphasize his dedication toward his works. Through the use of rhetorical questions and repetition, Gladwell demonstrates that a thin-slice of information can be used to deduce deeper comprehension.

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.

Is it coincidental that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bill Joy and many other multi-millionaires were all born within a span of 3 years? Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, suspects that there is something more behind this occurrence than just a simple coincidence. He asserts that there is no such thing as a self-made man and success does not come from natural talent, rather it comes from extraordinary opportunities and hidden advantages. In Outliers, Gladwell attempts to debunk the myth that people are successful because of themselves, and not because of other factors. Even Malcolm Gladwell acknowledges that passion and hard work are required to succeed. However, he believes that this passion and time to put in the work would not be possible without the aid of extraordinary opportunities. Gladwell prepares a firm set of logical arguments, including the advantages of birth dates, cultural legacy and family backgrounds, to guarantee that his audience will be convinced of his conviction.

Malcolm Gladwell’s ability to address his rhetorical purpose as well as his consistent use of persuasive language are reasons why all students should read his book, Outliers. Gladwell’s rhetorical purpose is to convince readers that society should offer opportunities for everyone. His exigence is that only people who receive an opportunity become successful, and his audience is anyone in the general populace. He gives many examples throughout the book of successful, wealthy, and famous people who are all successful due to the opportunities they received in their life, and all of these help him to meet his rhetorical purpose. Gladwell’s use of rhetoric is prevalent throughout the book.

Malcolm Gladwell embodies the entire subject of the book “Blink,” in both the title of the book, and the phrase “thin-slicing,” which is a person ability to accurately gauge what is important from a very narrow period of time. To put it simply, impulsive decisions can often be more reliable than well thought out decisions. Gladwell provided the reader with multiple examples throughout each chapter of the book to back up his thesis. My goal is to reconstruct each of these examples/arguments in a more convenient manner for the reader, to support Gladwell’s argument. Come with me on a journey into the world of snap

Gladwell had several ideas he had based people’s successes on, one of which were their skills. He focused on whether a person was capable of being successful in their career path. Not just their IQ, or their ability to perform a task well, but whether their social skills were also capable or not. Gladwell states that it is not possible to make it far alone, so he would check to see if an individual wasn’t an awkward loner who excelled in only academically. Gladwell would not only look at SAT scores and how well they did in school, but look at how creative or innovative an individual was.

Why is it that we think the way we do; how do we deduce what a person is like before we even talk to them? Blink, written by psychologist Malcolm Gladwell explains the answers to these question, and provides much more. He educates readers about snap judgements, thin slicing, the power of rapid cognition, etc. All the different stories- ranging from marriage compatibility to war to food- in this book come together to support the bigger picture while also picking varying points on the subject of rapid cognition. A passage about a musical revolution exemplifies the topic of rapid cognition having a huge influence on every individual’s life, additionally making the reader self-aware of the functions of their mind.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell tells of many people and events that had disastrous or incredible outcomes because of the power of the subconscious to make decisions that the conscious mind is unaware of. Throughout Blink, Gladwell presents many ways to show that the mind and body give off hints to one’s true feelings in the “blink” of an eye. One of his many compelling arguments is the idea of “priming,” while one of his less compelling arguments is the idea of anyone having too much information to make a correct decision. Priming is such a compelling argument because it can account for such a large change in mindset. However, the idea of having too much information is misleading and confusing. Both arguments have the potential to change how one looks at their own

Malcolm Gladwell crafted a formula to combat one of man’s greatest obstacles; finding the concrete method to success. He contrived his formula by providing the reader examples that represented his personal ideals and it’s attempted to solidify that they were common appearances throughout history. However, having concrete belief that his formula will work in every success story cannot be ascertained, especially when proving failures, as the examples he provided were very general. Through further inquisition and research many of Gladwell’s examples in Outliers counter themselves in regards to their adherence to his formula for success.

Although Gladwell's Outliers has been criticized for drawing generalizations from a "flimsy selection of colorful anecdotes and stories," and his argument borders "social predestination," according to the New York Times, Gladwell's conclusions do provoke a lot of thought and self-reflection. If you look at the reasons why you're a successful writer, you may find it was due more to circumstance, practice, and upbringing than any gift you were imbued with from

There are two types of ways to think in this world, one way is called intuitive & the other is called articulate. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book where we learn how we think without thinking, or rather about things that seem to just come to us without us having to do any thinking at all. A very powerful message that I spotted that was meant for the reader at the end of this book was that we should know when to trust our instincts and when to be cautious of them.

I selected to read the book Blink: Think Without Thinking for the reason that the title was most appealing to me. I said to myself this should be a fascinating read for how can a person blink and think without thinking? Initially, I just did not understand how anyone could do it. As in my mind, if a person does not think how will he or she know their thinking? As I read, Gladwell gave a few examples to support his theory. One was about a man who brought ancient and rare statues to a museum in California and even though scientists claimed to have proven that the figures were real, yet = the experts’ “gut instincts” still made them suspicious which led to a re-inspection. The re-inspection led to the scientists discovering that they were indeed counterfeit. He wrote: “Our unconscious is excellent at quick decision-making – it often conveys a better response than a more thoughtful and thorough ways of thinking.” As I read further, Malcolm Gladwell’s method of thin slices was the primary concept behind Blink. Thin slicing is the fact that a decision, based on small amounts of quality information, made very rapidly can be as accurate as decisions made cautiously and deliberately. Therefore, after reading what he meant by“Think without thinking,” it influenced me to disagree and agree with the author’s primary concept behind Blink; for the reason that I thought a person should have the best quality of information and not make impulse decisions depending on the situation at hand.

In conclusion, Gladwell in his book tries to show and teach the readers that ours adaptive unconscious is sifting through the situation in front of us, throwing out all that is irrelevant while we zero in on what really matters. In addition, the truth is that our unconscious is good at this, to the point where thin slicing often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of

Whilst reading this scenario you may have noticed that you were constantly presented with situations where your mind was forced to jump to a set of conclusions and make a decision in the space of about two seconds. Blink is a book about those two seconds, about thinking that happens in the blink of an eye, thinking that Gladwell refers to as rapid cognition. You’re probably thinking that ‘rapid cognition’ is just a fancy way of saying instinct or intuition, so you may argue then that this book is simply about that; intuition. Whilst you may not be wrong, you’re not right either. In fact, intuition doesn’t even appear in the book. Gladwell refers to intuition as that gut feeling, emotional,