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(3.79) | 33 | In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence.… (mer) |
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Before penning down my thoughts, I Googled about the reviews of this book - at the time of this writing, the average rating on Goodreads was 4.03. Here, the average rating is slightly lower than Goodreads, but it's still at 3.79, with majority rated either a 4.0 or 3.0.
What does that tell me about what strangers think of the book? Gladwell will say "Whatever I think, don't count on it as they are strangers". I mean he might say that. I mean, Gladwell is a stranger to me too right? This sums up the key premise of this book - "don't get carried away with your assumptions about strangers". I didn't look for the average rating to make this point - but I started my review with this little story because I thought it seemed fitting.
In this book, Gladwell dissected a number of case studies and scandals that had controversies over the decades (some spanning centuries) to make his case - that it really is hard to make sense of strangers' behavior and it is too easy for our bias and assumption get in the way, strangers and friends alike. Not that assumptions are necessarily a bad thing, but it's probably good that we are more aware of this tendency - reinforcing the idea that we should give our thoughts more benefit of doubt and empathy when dealing with people. Real life is not an episode of CSI, Brooklyn 99 or Friends. The other takeaway is giving more consideration of people's (and your own) behaviors according to the context. With certain circumstances and conditions, comes opportunities - a perfect stage scene for coupling behaviors as with Plath's suicide or Bland's death.
Personally, I would not have pick up this book had it not been a gift and I am waiting for my new e-reader. While I got some key takeaways that changed my perspectives, it's hard to like this book for the case studies Gladwell chose mix in many other factors that make it difficult to focus what the key points are by the time you finish the chapter. Overall though, I did learn something new from this book, in spite it being a bit hard to follow at times. (