On Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m., Chaplain Peter Bredlau will lead a discussion in the library (Periodicals Reading Room) on Malcolm Gladwell’s bestsellers: Blink, The Tipping Point, Outliers. This event is open to the public. If you’ve read any one or several of these titles, now is the chance to talk them through with other people interested in these provocative works and their author.
Publishers Weekly says of Gladwell’s book Blink: “Best-selling author Gladwell (The Tipping Point) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgments-about people’s intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategy-he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why does Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell’s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant facts-and that less input (as long as it’s the right input) is better than more.”
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