.GallowayOnFilm: Malcolm Gladwell's new book TalkingToStrangers falls victim to the Big Idea
'Talking to Strangers', the celebrated New Yorker writer's first book in six years, is stuffed full of the facts and factoids the author is famed for but it doesn't trade in the business of truth, writes the Hollywood Reporter's executive editor Stephen Galloway.Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking“In September of 1983,” he recounts, “an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.
That’s proof positive, says Gladwell, of his book’s main point: that “decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.” “Chamberlain was acting on the same assumption that we all follow in making sense of strangers,” he writes. “[We] look people in the eye, observe their demeanor and behavior, and draw conclusions.” Chamberlain’s intuition “didn’t help him see Hitler more clearly. It did the opposite.”Now I’m all in favor of seeing multiple points of view, of having point and counterpoint.
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