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April 17, 2005

On Blinking vs Thinking

We think Malcolm Gladwell is a fine journalist, and we've linked to a couple of his stories in the past, but we're not entirely sure about the hypothesis he offers in his latest book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which is basically that it's better to make decisions without too much of that cognitive stuff.

The boy means well, but we're pretty sure that all manner of disasters are likely to be visited on people who take his advice literally. Novelist Sue M. Halpern's review, in the New York Review of Books, makes some interesting points, among them being the fact that the art of quick thinking can take an awfully long time to perfect.

And Frank Serpico thinks Malcolm might have mistaken some bad police work for split-second thinking. [Spotted by Jeremy Wagstaff]

Posted by cw at April 17, 2005 03:05 PM

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