Gladwell: A Blink-a-Day!
In a review of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Elkhonon Goldberg's The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older in The New York Review of Books, Sue M. Halpern writes:
Saving time would appear to be the essence of rapid cognition. Why waste precious minutes performing a complete physical exam on a man suffering chest pains if there are only three symptoms that reliably rule out heart attack? Why suffer through dinner on a blind date when a five-minute conversation would be cheaper and revealing enough? Gladwell's point much like Gigerenzer's before him is that "decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately."
Anyone else think Gladwell should release a Blink calendar to help us all maximize our time and harness our brain power? And besides, that's the one thing Gladwell needs: another revenue stream.
