The introduction is an incident simply narrated and we forget about it, until we are reminded of it in chapter 12 where the whole book was slowly preparing us to learn absorb and understand why it was mentioned and why it happened at same time. This is the genius of Gladwell!
I have read many of Malcolm Gladwell books, (The tipping Point, Blink, Outliers) luckily, he has maintained the same level in all his books to date. They are always page turners, revealing, interesting, captivating, and compel the reader to want to learn more about the topic and never boring informative.
An amazing technique used by the author is the short stories that are the bait that clings you to the book and makes the scientific theories, tables, graphs and facts that lie in the coming page exciting and fun to read as they come in with the moral, and science DEDUCED from the story.
The theories don’t come in boring jargon but in real life events with real people, names, places, and events that end with a scientific conclusion that is a piece of the puzzle to get to the final conclusion. Such as giving the famous show FRIENDS as an example, or his father reading Charles Dickens to him as a kid.
The style is BRILLIANT! going about with short chapters telling us an amazing story with the science on the margin.
No matter how much you can benefit from the book, and the load of information, high or low, the bottom line is that you will enjoy it. I encourage reading, it will open your eyes on the old prevailing beliefs that have led us to wrongly judge people and how bad we are at detecting lies.
Malcolm Gladwell’s books are 3 in 1: they are Biographic, Scientific Novels!
On the conundrum of talking to strangers:
“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative—to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception—is worse.”
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Why can’t we tell when the stranger in front of us is lying to our face?
Malcolm Gladwell is a cross between a storyteller and a journalist. He digs up stories to support his theories. Each book he has written has multiple themes and theories. This one is a bit different. It focuses on how difficult it is to talk to strangers and get a true understanding of the person’s thinking, morals and philosophies. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have advice on how to get better at it.He tells the stories of how judges grant bale who probably should have remained in jail, about Hitler’s intentions; how Bernie Madoff deceived smart individuals who thought he was a genius and Knox served prison time for a murder that she did not commit.Gladwell tells us that we are poor judges of when bad people are putting on an act, yet we believe we are good at sizing up a person.Gladwell fans will like this book. Those who have never been exposed to his work, and even some of his regular readers, might wonder, “Is that all there is?” I wanted a bit more.
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Pranav
Good book to read, paper quality need improvement
Reviewed in India on March 30, 2024