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Jan 16, 2016 12:14AM
Hello everyone! This is my thread where I will be keeping track of my books read this year. I didn't manage to reach 50 books last year, so I will be competing against myself. I hope I'll get to post 50 books here this year!
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JANUARY
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by
Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Psychology/Self-help
Start date: December 22, 2015
Finish date: January 14, 2016
Times read: 1
Rating: 5/5 definitely!!!
Review:
1st thing you need to know about this book: It is just brilliant.
Blink is about the power of rapid cognition. In other words, the first thing that pops into your mind when you meet someone new or are faced with a stressful situation. It can be know as first impressions, or gut feelings.
Some of the important take-aways I got from the book:
1. When one is overwhelmed by information, it can be harder to acknowledge or even form a good and accurate first impression. Sometimes facts can cloud your vision and make you blind to the truth.
2. It is hard, but one should learn to balance information with understanding. That way you get the best of both worlds. Facts as well as gut feelings.
3. Experts have better instincts relating to things in their field, because, well, they're experts. They can describe their first impressions with accurate terminology, and they can hold onto those impressions. This enables them to perform better in, for example, a taste test.
4. In situations that give you high adrenaline, your ability to diagnose a situation properly completely shut down. You resort to basic instincts which are often wrong and disastrous.
5. Thin-slicing is finding answers from very limited information. It is actually very useful and works in many different situations, proving that sometimes knowing the whole story is a distraction. Getting important, little bits of info is all that is needed.
1.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by
Malcolm GladwellGenre: Psychology/Self-help
Start date: December 22, 2015
Finish date: January 14, 2016
Times read: 1
Rating: 5/5 definitely!!!
Review:
1st thing you need to know about this book: It is just brilliant.
Blink is about the power of rapid cognition. In other words, the first thing that pops into your mind when you meet someone new or are faced with a stressful situation. It can be know as first impressions, or gut feelings.
Some of the important take-aways I got from the book:
1. When one is overwhelmed by information, it can be harder to acknowledge or even form a good and accurate first impression. Sometimes facts can cloud your vision and make you blind to the truth.
2. It is hard, but one should learn to balance information with understanding. That way you get the best of both worlds. Facts as well as gut feelings.
3. Experts have better instincts relating to things in their field, because, well, they're experts. They can describe their first impressions with accurate terminology, and they can hold onto those impressions. This enables them to perform better in, for example, a taste test.
4. In situations that give you high adrenaline, your ability to diagnose a situation properly completely shut down. You resort to basic instincts which are often wrong and disastrous.
5. Thin-slicing is finding answers from very limited information. It is actually very useful and works in many different situations, proving that sometimes knowing the whole story is a distraction. Getting important, little bits of info is all that is needed.
