nan | 楠木

I had read Gladwell’s books a while back. The Tipping Point was the first I read. I found it enjoyable, and entertainingly satisfactory. It was a bit wordy and redundant, quite a lot of examples were given to illustrate the same point. Nonetheless it was a good book.
Blink is also good enough – to the extent that it had enough of the same “wow” factor found in The Tipping Point. A lot of the points it started off by making were innovative, and challenged conventional thinking. Just as the previous book had done. However, I felt that this time around I was not going to be satisfied just by being offered a lot of examples which illustrate the power of our unconscious rapid thinking. The book goes off in several directions, but never comes together to bring a unified meaning. And as a guy working in a industry which is obsessed about making the point, I find the book to be unsatisfying. I kept asking, what’s the point? What’s the implication? What’s the big picture? Unfortunately, those questions are not well addressed.
So while these two books makes for entertaining reading, be prepared to be frustrated. You’ll finish them with a lot more questions unanswered than when you started.