Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye

Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
by Michael R. LeGault

Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
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Author: Michael R. LeGault
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 1416531556
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Threshold Editions

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Book Review: It could have been a good book...
Summary: 2 Stars

The right person could have taken this theme and written a really valuable and useful book. Legault's attempt is a poorly organized mish-mash tainted by his own biases. Someone on the political left could have written a book with the same flaws and with mirror image biases and blind spots. And it would have been just as bad.

Legault makes the case for critical thinking and this is good, but then he shows himself to be blinded by his ideology.

Summary of Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye

Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of people everywhere.

Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfilment and growing dysfunction. LeGault provides a bold, controversial, and objective analysis of the causes and solutions for some of the biggest problems facing Western culture in the 21st century. From the over- load of reality TV shows and gossip magazines that have rendered curiosity of the mind and spirit obsolete to permissive parenting and low standards that have caused an academic crisis among our children, LeGault looks at all aspects of modern lives and points to how and where it all went wrong.

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