Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

• Genre: Nonfiction; self-help
• Originally Published: 2005
• Reading Level/Interest: College/adult
• Structure/Length: 6 chapters; approx. 296 pages; approx. 7 hours, 44 minutes on audio
• Central Concern: Blink is a book about how we think about thinking. The instantaneous choices we make daily are not as simple as they seem. Gladwell examines how brains work in various environments and why some people are brilliant decision-makers and why others are not.
• Potential Sensitivity Issues: Discussions regarding racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of prejudice

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

• Bio: Canadian journalist, author, podcast host, and public speaker; born in 1963 in England; grades were not good enough for graduate school, so he studied advertising; rejected from every advertising agency he applied to before landing in journalism; has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996; has hosted the Revisionist History podcast since 2016; founded the podcast company Pushkin Industries in 2018; one of Time’s 100 most influential people; won the American Sociological Association’s first Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues award in 2007; holds two honorary degrees from University of Waterloo and University of Toronto; awarded the Order of Canada, the country’s second highest honor, in 2011
• Other Works: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000); Outliers: The Story of Success (2008); What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009); David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013); Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know (2019); The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021)