With Blink, Malcolm Gladwell has attempted to quantify the
phenomenon of the gut feeling. Malcolm Gladwell puts forth his thoughts
on the feelings of intuition in a considerably more scientific way than
many people thought possible, all while admitting to the shortcomings of
science in this particular area. And although science cannot possibly
hope to give us all of the answers within this discipline, Gladwell
retains enough of the childlike sense of wonder about the topic to leave
certain questions open to the child within us, maintaining that we do
not have to know everything in order to use the information that we
have.
Despite the book's quantitative shortcomings at times, there
is no better statistician than Malcolm Gladwell in mainstream literary
society today. While discussing the concept of intuition and the things
that we gather from it, he puts forth many statistics that prove that
intuition is a useful and even necessary tool for humans to use. As a
matter of fact, in his book, the most scientific people sometimes must
rely on intuition more than the average person, which leads to great
breakthroughs when their intuition is finally proven correct after a
passage of time.
There can be little argument over Gladwell's
penchant for numbers and statistics. The true reason for the average
person to read this book is not to prove or disprove anything about the
way that our brains and bodies process information. It is to learn how
to trust ourselves more fully, and as we split hairs and atoms
attempting to figure out the physiology and the science behind our
incredible central processing systems, not to discount the information
that it gives us on a daily basis without being fully understood.
Gladwell gives the average reader an excuse to trust himself and to
break down the barriers between science and God.
Anyone who has
familiarized himself with Gladwell's entire catalog with me that the
book Blink is quite appropriate, as many of these phenomenon that he
discusses in the book are actually central themes to other phenomenon
that he discusses, like as in Tipping Point.
Regardless of whether
you decide to take this book as a purely scientific endeavor or as a
self help science book of sorts, the book remains a fascinating read. It
is an eye-opener for the skeptic and the believer alike, because though
Gladwell speaks of many godly things in the book, he is only talking
about us - and the only thing a reader need believe in to understand
Gladwell is himself.
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