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- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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- L
- 12-12-12
Very Average...
Blink is a very successful book which covers the subject of intuition. I expected great things from this and the audiobook got off to a flying start with Gladwell's playful and confident reading style. I kept expecting the audiobook to then ramp up past what was fast becoming a very long-winded introduction...except it wasn't and by now I was onto the third chapter. Whilst providing some interesting examples, this book does little else than state the obvious...again and again and again....it feels like a lot of newspaper clippings all pulled together (which some say is exactly what it is). For such a successful book I had such high expectations and for the most part this book failed to deliver...I found myself becoming increasingly bored.
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- Wicked Wolfie
- 02-12-16
Missing anything about neural networks.
This book could've been more informative about how the subconscious brain works as a neural network which is very good at pattern recognition. Instead it becomes a series of anecdotes about conscious bias and prejudice. It's still informative but not very helpful to improve ones subconscious brain other than external management.
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- MONT
- 12-12-16
Great narration, poor production
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- BB
- 30-07-15
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- Ewan D.
- 16-02-07
Not quite what I expected
Enjoyed lisening to the various stories but kept hearing myself say - and your point is?
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- Jane
- 20-06-07
Enjoyable, but goes in an unexpected direction
I enjoyed listening to this. Gladwell interweaves gripping stories with interesting psychological information very effectively. Like another reviewer, however, I was a bit surprised with the direction this took. It started out being about the powers of the unconscious and how experts can make very complicated judgements almost instantaneously. It seemed to promise to tell the reader how to harness the power of the unconsious. But then it swerved much more into exploring how snap judgements can be bad, and ended up being about the nature of prejudice. This was very interesting (possibly more interesting than the direction it had been heading in), but definitely a bit unexpected.
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- LJLC
- 10-12-19
A little disappointing
Maybe it's just me, (it probably is), but after having great expectations of this book, it seemed rather dull.
The root of it's premise is repeated in various ways and guises, and the conclusions seem, well... Obvious.
Won't be revisiting it, but you may well feel quite differently.
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- Finna
- 07-09-16
some great Gladwell stuff but...
I love Malcolm Gladwell but after reading Outliers, which I loved, , this one didn't keep my interest to the end. a little too much detail that lost the relevance for me.
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- Lewis
- 05-06-08
Brilliant!
I love this kind of book. If you are even mildly interested in why people do what they do, this book is another must (as well as Predictably Irrational*). It's all in plain English, and it's all fascinating.
I would recommend this book. In fact, I have to many friends.
Get it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-07-19
Feels like a tabloid, and poor audio
Maybe I had misguided expectations, but for me it felt like a science infused tabloid with overly lengthy storytelling, missing theories and terribly poor quality audio with extremely annoying music snippets. Besides one or two stories, it didn't really give anything. (But I'm pretty well-read in behavioural sciences.)
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- Mark
- 14-02-13
Good but flawed
This is the third Malcolm Gladwell book I have listened to (or read), and like the other two, it is really interesting, but just a little bit unconvincing in parts. He is a brilliant storyteller, drawing you in with interesting anecdotes about a man who can pick winning horses by observing their body language and a rogue soldier who outwits the entire US army in a war game scenario. But towards the end of the book his argument loses its way.
As the book progresses he gradually builds a convincing theory about how our minds are adept at making accurate instantaneous judgements and how, in many cases, the more information we are given the less likely we are to judge well.
But then he starts to make some slightly dubious claims and even to contradict himself somewhat. He tells the story of 4 policemen who kill an African American in a bad neighbourhood at night because they think he has a gun. He says that the stress of the situation gives them ‘temporary autism’ which robs them of their normal powers to make ‘blink’ judgements. But you just don’t need this theory to explain why they misjudged the situation. It was dark, and the inability of the men to detect the innocence and terror on the victim’s face could be explained by this alone.
Later on he describes another policeman, who had received training in controlling this kind of panic reaction in dangerous and stressful situations, and because of this training, when faced with an armed youngster, he waited a little longer and gathered more information and decided not to shoot. But this contradicts the main idea of the book, which is that we make better decisions when we allow our intuition to do it in a blink.
So, by the end of the book, you have been entertained and have also been persuaded that humans often make better judgements when they ‘thin slice’, i.e. they make quick unconscious decisions based on very limited information. But, in my opinion, he tries to over-elaborate his theory in the later chapters, and I felt myself disagreeing with him, which spoilt the book a bit.
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- Omar
- 28-03-12
Amazingly written and read.
If you happened to like any of Malcolm Gladwell's books, you will surely like this one. For me , it is even better than the previous ones. I think negative reviews might have been influenced by exceedingly high expectations.
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- Anders Bohn Jespersen
- 02-01-10
Eye opener
Excellent and inspiring book - of the matter of intuition as well as actual issues concerning us all - such as police shootings or effective markting of products.
A minor but unusual and very nice detail: this audiobook is actually modified slightly from the written edition, so it consistently makes sense to a listener as oposed to a reader.
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- Peter
- 07-02-07
Blink
Very perceptive book and a good sequel to Tipping Point. I am currently on my second way through it and enjoy the open approach that has been taken.
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- Greg
- 11-10-12
Gladwell tells excellent stories to back theories
I loved how Gladwell explains how much information we can gather in a blink of an eye. He goes on to show his findings through research and stories.
I feel wiser and love re-quoting the stories to other people.
Great audio - and well read.
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- Rohan Nijjar
- 19-10-18
Wonderful
Wonderful read and brilliant narration by Malcolm Gladwell. I really enjoyed it.Audible please upload more books.
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- Sarah
- 03-09-17
Insightful
Excellent & well worth the listen, it's motivated me to look more into the expressions of the face ☀️
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- Anonymous User
- 12-05-22
love it
I enjoyed this book. I want to listen to all of Melcolm's books. I've listened to 3 so far. A great companion on long road trips.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-03-22
entertaining and very insightful
entertaining and very insightful I really enjoy Malcolm's books and having himself doing the reading helps to understand better the meaning because he stress the words the way you know it was supposed to be read/heard
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-06-21
pointless, mainly
no clear conclusion, but a lot of information. more like a research without an actionable conclusion