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Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
by Michael R. LeGault
from Threshold Editions
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 
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Should be read once a year 
After reading this book, I can no longer watch television without feeling guilty for wasting my time. The author showed me many holes in my college education. He writes to the lay people and the college student.
In fact, I would call this an invitation to graduate school.
If you read this from cover to cover, you will watch less of the idiot box and spend less time on the computer. He ruined television for me. Nice going.......
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No critical thinking in Think! 
This book purports to explain why we need to depend more on critical thinking and analysis, but tries to do so without using any critical thinking. Most of LeGault's arguments are unsupported by any kind of evidence except for anecdotes. The author does his best to disprove his thesis with his own writing. Unbelievable!
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It could have been a good book... 
The right person could have taken this theme and written a really valuable and useful book. Legault's attempt is a poorly organized mish-mash tainted by his own biases. Someone on the political left could have written a book with the same flaws and with mirror image biases and blind spots. And it would have been just as bad.
Legault makes the case for critical thinking and this is good, but then he shows himself to be blinded by his ideology.
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Enhance creativity and improve reasoning 
"We have become a society in which the first instinct is not to think clearly, it is the protection of one's backside "(pg 29) The book explores why the use of reason is declining and the ones to blame for this.
Despite Blink being a best-seller, and having great reviews, I was never persuaded to read it. However, Think! caught my attention and I am pleased to have read it. I can't comment on the comparisons Le Gault makes to Blink, but I recommend this book to those who have and have not read Blink.... more info
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