So I suppose I have taken yet another blogging hiatus without telling anyone.  I need to take a lesson from my wife and actually give folks a warning.  Naturally, I wasn’t planning on such a break, but when you get home for a week and then return to Italy, it is easy to lose the routine.  Same old story, I suppose.

Anyhow, I was going to post earlier this week about the video I left off with last month.  You know, the one I said I would comment on before I didn’t blog for 3 weeks.  Yea, that one.  But those posts got delayed a bit by a book that actually brought greater insight into what I was thinking.  Or at least gave my thinking some authoritative backing.

The book:  Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Have you heard of it?  Well then, have you read it?  Well, you should hear about it, let others hear about it, all while reading it yourself.  Because like his other two books (both of which I read), it is very good.

The subtitle is “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.”  That doesn’t tell the whole story, but like any good subtitle, it does serve as a good summary.  For Gladwell’s book is something of an investigation into the human mind and the power of the subconscious.  How we operate and respond at our deepest psychological levels and what we can do about it.

Gladwell writes in his usual engaging style, filling up page upon page with various stories of people and problems from every segment of life.  So no matter what segment you may find yourself in, you will find something to learn from and apply in this book.  I give it my hearty recommendation.  I will be sure to cite a few things from it in the week ahead, particularly as I keep my word and offer a few thoughts on that video I linked to last time I blogged, you know, all the way back in December of 2009.