Blink: the Power of Thinking without Thinking

How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That’s the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus. Leaping boldly from example to example, displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Gladwell reveals how we can become better decision makers--in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life. The result is a book that is surprising and transforming. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

如果你錯過了《引爆趨勢》，千萬不要再錯過《Blink》！
《引爆趨勢》作者葛拉威爾最顛覆思維之作，
出版首週即登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜第一名。

生活中的決策無論好壞，我們倒底是如何做成的？為什麼有些人的決策能力領袖群倫？在這本繼《引爆趨勢》（The Tipping Point）之後的扛鼎之作中，葛拉威爾闡述並解答這些問題。他運用多樣化的個案研究題材，諸如快速約會的過程、流行音樂的運作與無辜黑人遭警方槍殺的疑案，彰顯了一項重大發現：人們在一眨眼瞬間做成的決策，其內涵遠比表相來得複雜。

葛拉威爾援引最尖端的神經科學與心理學研究成果，證實了影響決策優劣的關鍵，並不在於我們能夠快速處理多少資訊，而是在於我們全神貫注的特定焦點。葛拉威爾在例證之間縱橫揮灑，再度展現他讓《引爆趨勢》成為一部經典之作的精湛才華，他告訴我們如何化身為更成功的決策者，從家庭關係、職業生涯到日常生活。本書將令你有柳暗花明之感，從此改變許多想法與作法，更讓你對「思維」的瞭解邁入新的境界。

前幾年，葛拉威爾開始蓄髮，狂放的髮型卻在生活中造成不小的衝擊，讓他深深覺得改變雖小，影響卻很深刻。比如說，他接到有生以來第一張超速罰單；在機場排隊時，也被安全人員挑出來特別關照。甚至有一天，他走在曼哈頓街頭時，竟然被三名警察以貌似某個強暴犯為由盤查了二十分鐘之久。他費盡唇舌指著嫌犯畫像，表示他們根本只有鬈鬈的爆炸頭相似而已。

「對我頭髮的第一印象盤據在警察的心中，我必須花二十分鐘才能驅除他在看到我之後兩秒鐘產生的印象。街頭的這一幕事件使我開始思考第一印象的詭異力量，」葛拉威爾說道，《決斷2秒間》於焉誕生。

Malcolm Gladwell

Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984.

From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool.

His phenomenal bestseller The Tipping Point captured the world’s attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena.

How first impressions lead to snap judgements inspired his next bestselling book, BLINK: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, which reveals how the power of 'blink' could fundamentally transform our relationships, the way we consume, create and communicate, how we run our businesses and even our societies.

OUTLIERS: The Story of Success, is Gladwell’s eagerly anticipated new book on success. It takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. Just as he did in BLINK, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world.

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