Name: | Blink |
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By: | Malcolm Gladwell |
Narrated by: | Malcolm Gladwell |
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Length | 7 hrs and 45 mins |
Category: | Business & Careers, Career Success |
Release Date: | 0005-04-02 |
Language: | English |
Outliers is a book by Malcolm Gladwell that looks at the stories of successful people and tries to find the common patterns and factors that contributed to their success. Gladwell looks at a variety of Outliers, from Bill Gates to the Beatles, and argues that there are certain elements that each of these people had in common that helped them achieve their level of success.
The characters in this Blink are a mother and her young son. The mother is trying to teach her son a lesson about honesty, but he is having a hard time understanding. The feature content of this Blink is the mother’s efforts to teach her son about honesty.
Malcolm Gladwell’s characters are often seen as outliers or as people who have defied the odds. In his book Outliers, for example, he tells the stories of people like Bill Gates and the Beatles, who were able to achieve success because they had access to rare and valuable resources.
In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell explores the idea of the “power of the unconscious mind.” He looks at how our gut reactions can often be more accurate than our conscious thoughts, and how we can use this knowledge to make better decisions in our lives.
Gladwell provides several examples of how the unconscious mind can give us insights that we would not otherwise have. He discusses how we can use this knowledge to improve our decision-making in areas such as relationships, business, and health.
Overall, Blink is an interesting and thought-provoking book that provides readers with a new way of thinking about the power of the unconscious mind.
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