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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Unconscious abilities work in mysterious ways. I get it. Some of the anecdotes made it interesting in bits and pieces. Author's writing frequently looses pace on account of excruciating details that he takes support of in proving a point.

He makes a good point that rapid cognition is a power that can be honed by right practice. Book lacked flow and organization but made an impact.

His description of human behavior in the time of crisis takes the crown. How human abilities shrink under stress. How the amount of data that one can process in the scene of impending peril reduces to some core categories. Cops account of how they clearly have a vision of just their target and rest all fades away. This part of the book was truly riveting.

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