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Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't be Made in the Blink of an Eye (Paperback)

by Michael LeGault (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (2 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416531556
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416531555
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 337,134 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Th!nk requires some thought, 26 April 2007
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Were to LeGault to rewrite his book, then my advice would be to take some of his own medicine; that is th!nk critically, about some of the oversimplifications that are made and explore some of the contrary evidence more fully.
Although I agree with the primary argument of LeGault, that America and certain westernised, societies are living a dumbed down existence in which the socialist ideal of intellectual equality has reduced everything to the lowest common denominator. His rank generalisations about subjectivity as apposed to objectivity suggest he has not been true to his own words and applied his own methodology in critically considering all his statements. His blanket criticisms are more reminiscent of popular journalism rather than the intellectual aspirations he has.
Despite the use of references to support his arguments, the contrary arguments were glossed over with scant or total disregard, I became sullied by LeGaults own opinion on all the usual suspects, feminism, television, politicians, replayed over and over.
LeGault expressly confirms the book's clear American bias, though as a European one has the feeling that our time has past and that only the US can now lead us out of this malaise.
Yes we have a problem, but this small town conservative style approach to opine on the common enemy will not succeed in convincing anyone with any good critical reasoning skills that critical reasoning alone is the solution.
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