This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. But it's still as relevant as it was then.  Don't make too quick a judgement ;-) In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell goes from his examination of macroscopic communication in The Tipping Point to the other end of the spectrum.  With Blink, Malcolm looks at the power of first impressions.  And more importantly, he examines how our minds create these first impressions and why they have so much power over us. One of the main concepts that Malcolm looks at is the idea of thin slicing.  This is how he describes that act of making decisions based on a a small amount … [Read more...]