Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

The main focus of the author's work is "thin-slicing," or our ability to draw conclusions based on minimal knowledge from a short time of experience. This concept implies that impulsive decisions are often just as excellent as—or even better than—carefully considered and planned ones. Gladwell uses examples from science and medicine (including malpractice cases), sales and advertising, gambling, speed dating (and forecasting divorce), tennis, military war games, and movies and popular music to illustrate his points. Gladwell also provides a lot of real-life instances of "thin-slicing," such as our natural capacity to mind-read, which allows us to figure out a person's feelings just by looking at his or her face..... From Wikipedia