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How to Use Blinkist Properly - Facts So Romantic
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There’s a right way and a wrong way to use Blinkist. You’ll still want to do some reading, for one thing.Photograph by Jonathan Grado / FlickrThe summer reading for my senior-year A.P. psych class was Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, the bestseller all about the “power of thinking without thinking”—both its triumphs (fine “snap” judgments) and its troubles (crude stereotypes). I blazed through it. Regrettably, the same could not be said of my required fiction reading in A.P. English. For these, CliffsNotes was the answer. (No, I didn’t get an A.)But I did in psych. Blink stoked my interest in the subject, and prompted me to find other non-fiction books that could make me go, “That’s interesting!” Those moments of immersion—an escape from what the late sociologist Harold Garfinkel called the “routinized (...)

How to Learn to Love to Practice - Issue 33: Attraction
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In interviews, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, requires a huge amount of drudgery. Any challenging activity—from computer programming to playing a musical instrument to athletics—requires focused and concentrated practice. A perfect golf swing or flawless butterfly stroke takes untold hours of practice (actually around 10,000 hours, according to Malcolm Gladwell) and countless repetitions to perfect. Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, critical feedback, modification, and incremental improvement again, again, and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their (...)

De l’optimisation - New York Times
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Virginia Heffernan pour le New York Times revient sur le développement de l’optimisation. Elle rappelle pourtant, qu’il n’y a pas si longtemps encore, les blockbuster des livres d’affaires parlaient à l’unisson et avec succès de faire confiance à notre instinct. De Dan Ariely à Freakonomics en passant par Malcolm Gladwell, les gourous du management nous invitaient à suivre notre instinct. Mais les données sont passées par la. La mode de l’optimisation est revenue. L’optimisation est digne et scientifique. Pour le poète latin, Horace, l’optimus signifiait ce qui est moralement bon et indifférent aux futilités. Mais l’optimisation tire aussi du sens de l’optimisme. Qu’importe ce qu’on souhaite améliorer, l’efficacité ou la performance, l’optimisation ne nécessite ni talent ni ambition, contrairement à nos (...)

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Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books - NYTimes.com

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Quand un monstre se plaint d’un autre monstre

Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers, a flexing of its muscle as a battle with a publisher spills into the open.

The Internet retailer, which controls more than a third of the book trade in the United States, is marking many books published by Hachette Book Group as not available for at least two or three weeks.

A Hachette spokeswoman said on Thursday that the publisher was striving to keep Amazon supplied but that the Internet giant was delaying shipments “for reasons of their own.” Hachette is one of the largest New York houses, publishing under the Little, Brown and Grand Central imprints, among many others.

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How to Learn to Love to Practice - Facts So Romantic
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Markovka via Shutterstock In interviews, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, requires a huge amount of drudgery. Any challenging activity—from computer programming to playing a musical instrument to athletics—requires focused and concentrated practice. A perfect golf swing or flawless butterfly stroke takes untold hours of practice (actually around 10,000 hours, according to Malcolm Gladwell) and countless repetitions to perfect. Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, critical feedback, modification, and incremental improvement again, again, and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years (...)

Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in Subjective Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings

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“Maps are the places where memories go not to die but to live forever.”

“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation … so that every event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul,” E. B. White memorably wrote in his 1949 masterpiece Here Is New York. And indeed what a canvas of glorious shared eclecticism Gotham is — city of cats and city of dogs, city of beloved public spaces and beloved secret places, of meticulous order and sparkling chaos, but above all a city of private memories woven together into one shared tapestry of belonging.

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Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in #Subjective_Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings
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And so the idea was born — to assemble a collaborative portrait of the city based on numerous individual experiences, memories, and subjective impressions. She painstakingly hand-printed a few hundred schematic maps of Manhattan on the letterpress in the basement of her college dorm, then walked all over the island, handing them to strangers and asking them to draw “their Manhattan,” then mail the maps back to her — which, in a heartening antidote to Gotham’s rumored curmudgeonly cynicism, they readily did.

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Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell | Books | The Observer
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