The Power of Deciding Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell argues that a two-second glance can outperform fourteen months of scientific analysis. When the Getty Museum paid $9.7 million for a Greek kouros, electron microscopes confirmed its authenticity, yet art historians Federico Zeri and Thomas Hoving instantly sensed forgery: Zeri fixated on wrong fingernails, Hoving thought "fresh." The statue was fake. From John Gottman's Love Lab, where contempt predicts divorce with 95 percent accuracy, to the Amadou Diallo shooting, Gladwell maps when rapid cognition saves us and when it kills.

You'll learn:

- Why the Four Horsemen destroy marriages faster than infidelity

- How orchestra screens increased women musicians fivefold

- What Paul Van Riper's motorcycle couriers taught the Pentagon