{"id":1139,"date":"2016-01-05T20:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T20:52:23","slug":"book-blink-by-malcolm-gladwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/book-blink-by-malcolm-gladwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1140\" src=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink.jpg 800w, https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Malcolm-Gladwell-Blink-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After enjoying so many of his TED talks and online articles I thought it was about time I put some money Gladwell's way and bought one of his books.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the way he's sectioned up the book, it made for a fast-paced read. Blink sucked me in with the opening paragraphs telling whimsical tales about the psychology of art forgery and gambling. Then - just when I'd settled into the mindset of a glamourous George Clooney heist movie - I suddenly found myself neck-deep in military tactics, autism, police shootings, subconscious gender and racial bias and I actually felt a bid sad by the end. Even if he did praise improvisational comedy theatre, a pursuit that I embrace with much love, albeit in an amateur capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Expecting (possibly naively) some practical\u00a0lessons to apply in everyday life, instead I found many fascinating stories that are inspiring and frustrating in equal measure. As much as I want to experiment with my new-found understanding, Gladwell has (probably very responsibly) made it quite clear that people can get their fingers burnt by the same human ability that gives experts their expertise.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed he references\u00a0<em>Gary Klein - Sources of Power<\/em>, the same book that Steve Krug cites in <em>Don't Make Me Think<\/em>. However Gladwell's take-home from Klein is that professionals making decisions in high-stress critical situations make viable decisions as opposed to non-viable ones without thinking, whereas Krug chose to focus on the fact that those same decisions are only the <em>first<\/em> viable option, not the <em>best<\/em> one. \u00a0Two subtly different interpretations that had me momentarily convinced I had found a disagreement. But I hadn't.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blink sucked me in with the opening paragraphs telling whimsical tales about the psychology of art forgery and gambling. Then &#8211; just when I&#8217;d settled into the mindset of a glamourous George Clooney heist movie &#8211; I suddenly found myself neck-deep in military tactics, autism, police shootings, subconscious gender and racial bias and I actually felt a bid sad by the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[119,116],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-book","tag-sebbatical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}