Book · 2004 · Intuition
Blink
#143 of 16,684 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
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- people
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- podcasts
- 14
- episodes
- 18
- critical mentions
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Blink is one that helps you really evaluate how you make decisions. How you rely on your instinct and your experience and how much that matters.
What they say about it
- Discusses gut intuition“the gut the intuition is is fast”3
- Called a great book“there's this great book by Malcolm Gladwell called blink”2
The best things said about it
There's this great book by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink. You should pick it up if you haven't read it.
Stefan Molyneux The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2013 Malcolm Gladwell famously wrote a book Blink making a similar claim that the gut, the intuition, is fast.
About 20 years ago as a result of a bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink there was the popular idea people in business love it that you should go with your gut.
Steven Pinker Modern Wisdom · Jan 2022 I feel obliged to you because your books outliers blink have been very formative for me as over the last 10 years since I was running my businesses and trying to understand certain dynamics that I didn't understand those books seem to arrive in my life at the right time.
I remember i first read the tipping point that i read blink then outliers then david and goliath which is also very good.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Jun 2021 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink. And some psychologists wrote a rejoinder book, much less widely read, called Think.
Philip Tetlock The Knowledge Project · Dec 2015 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
16 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a popular psychology book that examines the power of the adaptive unconscious and how people make snap judgments based on thin slicing. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Cathy Lanier recommended the book for high-paced professionals to evaluate decision-making and instincts, and Stefan Molyneux recommended it to Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience while discussing quick instincts. Gerd Gigerenzer discussed the book on EconTalk to explain how Gladwell popularized his ideas about intuition, while Ronda Rousey brought up the book on The Diary Of A CEO to discuss statistics regarding children who lose a parent early in life. Dom Raso mentioned being assigned to read the book during training on The Shawn Ryan Show, and Josh Clark used it on Stuff You Should Know to explain potential flaws in taste tests. Paul Bloom mentioned the work on EconTalk while discussing skepticism about gut feelings, and Stephen Dubner brought up the concept of thin slicing from the book on No Stupid Questions.
Every mention
Cathy Lanier I would also say Blink. Blink is another one that I only read because I liked Malcolm Gladwell, but Blink f… 1
Recommended
“I would also say Blink. Blink is another one that I only read because I liked Malcolm Gladwell, but Blink for people in highpaced professions. Blink is one that helps you really evaluate how you make decisions. How you rely on your instinct and your experience and how much that matters.”
Stefan Molyneux there's this great book by Malcolm Gladwell called blink you should pick it up if you haven't read it 1
Recommended
“there's this great book by Malcolm Gladwell called blink you should pick it up if you haven't read it”
Joe Rogan because their bedside manner was Malcolm Gladwell's book their bedside manner was was dominant 2
Discussed
“because their bedside manner was Malcolm Gladwell's book their bedside manner was was dominant”
Discussed
“there's a book I mean Malcolm gladell wrote that book blink about that where you you a human eye can pick up a massive amount of information”
Steven Bartlett one of the things that I am in your book blink in the first chapter you talk about John just John gottman 2
Discussed
“I feel obliged to you because your books outliers blink have been very formative for me as over the last 10 years since I was running my businesses and trying to understand certain dynamics that I didn't understand those books seem to arrive in my life at the right time”
Discussed
“one of the things that I am in your book blink in the first chapter you talk about John just John gottman”
Daniel Goleman and Malcolm Gladwell writes a little bit about this in blink 2 right 1
Discussed
“and Malcolm Gladwell writes a little bit about this in blink 2 right”
Dom Raso I had a book I was supposed to read blink and uh it was a great book I had started I was super fired up abo… 1
Discussed
“I had a book I was supposed to read blink and uh it was a great book I had started I was super fired up about it and we had to read these specific books”
Gerd Gigerenzer Gladwell. Yeah, sorry. Uh wrote a book of my ideas and blink and uh popularized it. 1
Discussed
“Gladwell. Yeah, sorry. Uh wrote a book of my ideas and blink and uh popularized it.”
Jason Calacanis she then sandbags it because they you may not know this but uh this was in one of Malcolm gladwell's books… 1
Discussed
“she then sandbags it because they you may not know this but uh this was in one of Malcolm gladwell's books blink I believe when they do these auditions they do them behind a curtain”
Josh Clark but um Malcolm Gladwell in his book blink apparently pointed out that if you're doing a taste test you're n… 1
Discussed
“but um Malcolm Gladwell in his book blink apparently pointed out that if you're doing a taste test you're not sitting there drinking a whole can you're just taking a little sip of something and comparing it to a sip of something else”
Paul Bloom I know you know Malcolm Gladwell famously wrote a book blinks making a similar claim that that the gut the… 1
Discussed
“I know you know Malcolm Gladwell famously wrote a book blinks making a similar claim that that the gut the intuition is is fast”
Philip Tetlock Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink. And some psychologists wrote a rejoinder book, much less widely… 1
Discussed
“Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink. And some psychologists wrote a rejoinder book, much less widely read, called Think.”
Rich Roll There are themes from all of your books that come into play. 1
Discussed
“There are themes from all of your books that come into play.”
Ronda Rousey have you ever read a blink by Malcolm Gladwell no but I've spoken to him on the podcast but no I haven't ye… 1
Discussed
“have you ever read a blink by Malcolm Gladwell no but I've spoken to him on the podcast but no I haven't yeah he mentions that that kids that lose a parent before they're 10 actually end up being uh more successful statistically later in life”
Ryan Holiday i remember i first read the tipping point that i read blink then outliers then david and goliath which is a… 1
Discussed
“i remember i first read the tipping point that i read blink then outliers then david and goliath which is also very good”
Stephen Dubner no but I read about thin slicing in one of milk I'm gladwell's books blink 1
Discussed
“no but I read about thin slicing in one of milk I'm gladwell's books blink”
Steven Pinker about 20 years ago as a result of a bestseller by malcolm gladwell called blink there was the popular idea… 1
Discussed
“about 20 years ago as a result of a bestseller by malcolm gladwell called blink there was the popular idea people in in business love it that you should go with your gut”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“remind me of three great books blink by malcolm gladwell the wisdom of crowds by james”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“one typesafe calls this a system one model borrowing the psychology shorthand for fast intuitive judgment like blink from uh I think that was Malcolm Gladwell.”
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“I'm looking at the list here blink we all remember blink”
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“I'm looking at the list here blink We all remember blink”
Passing
“He needs on-the-job training, you need 10,000 hours of torturing to get really good at it, that's what that Malcolm Gladwell book is about, if I'm remembering it properly.”
Plugged
“Perhaps you've listened to his sensational podcast, "Revisionist History," or read one of his many "New York Times" bestselling books like "Tipping Point," "Blank," "Outliers," "David and Goliath," and "Talking to Strangers."”
Passing
“blink uh forgive me I haven't read all of them but I read many of them and blank outliers the Tipping Point”
Passing
“so today my guest is the one and only malcolm gladwell the tipping point blink outliers david and goliath talking with strangers and now his new book the bomber mafia”
Passing
“and now that i think about it i forget which malcolm gladwell book it was whether it was blink or outliers and i i do ascribe to the 10 000 hour rule that if you're gonna get good it seems like a way to get good”
Plugged
“I remember years ago I wrote my second book blink and I have in that book a chapter about a very famous infamous police shooting in New York case of amadou diallo I remember that remember that was shot like 40 times by cops”