Blink

Blink examines how rapid, unconscious judgments are made and when they can be trusted or should be overridden. Malcolm Gladwell investigates the neuroscience and psychology behind thin-slicing, the mental ability to find patterns based on narrow slices of experience, and explores the circumstances under which expert intuition is reliable and those in which it fails catastrophically. The book moves from art authentication to marriage prediction to battlefield command, finding the common thread in each.

Gladwell narrates his own work with the engaging, slightly conspiratorial energy that has made his books bestsellers. His voice treats the counterintuitive research with genuine wonder, and the audiobook's compact length keeps the argument moving without the repetition that can plague popular non-fiction. Hearing Gladwell tell these stories is more intimate than reading them, his own enthusiasm for each example audible.