

Gladwell’s second entry into the aren’t-our-brains-amazing genre ( The Tipping Point, 2000) has an Obi-Wan Kenobi flavor, a “trust-your- feelings-Luke” antirationalism that attempts, in some ways, to deconstruct the Force. We need to place more trust in our “thin-slicer”-our capacity to make instant judgments-but we also need to sharpen its edge more keenly with experience and education.
