After reading your review audio books sounds like something that I can revisit. The concept really appeals to me. I can listen to it whilst travelling to and from work on the bus or perhaps at the gym.

As you allude to the “style” of voice would be an important factor in determining whether to buy the audio or paper version.

@ Mike – Glad you enjoyed it and I think now you need to get yourself Blink which is probably even better!

@ Chris – Thanks for dropping by my lurking friend and also the feedback. I certainly will check out Extraordinary Knowing, thanks for the tip.

BTW. In my great book giveaway this week I will be offering up Hagans book for free, so watch this space.

Been loving your blog ( much, much more than Steve Pavlina’s (-: since you are real and accessible and have such a great sense of humor) and have been a happy lurker. Don’t know Steve Hagan’s work. I’ll have to check it out. Another great book that you might enjoy that is written by a non-arrogant Buddhist teacher is Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and The Truth About Reality by Brad Warner.

Also love Malcolm Gladwell and just started reading Outliers. Am really looking forward to finding out about the Korean plane crashes! Also, if you like Blink and you’re curious about the power of intuition you might also like Extraordinary Knowing:Science, Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Loyd Mayer.

Keep up the book reviews. It’s fun to know what’s on your mind!!!

Just finished the pilot segment and all of the observations and associations regarding pilot behaviors are congruous with the studies and coursework I have been involved in over the past 18 years. Amazingly enough, incidents and accidents from 20 years ago, their lessons presented to most pilots a multitude of times, still are occasionally lost. Within the past 10 years, the occurrence of aviation accidents resultant from human errors has declined steeply from CRM and human factors efforts made by manufacturers, individual airlines, unions, and individual aviators. However, we still to this day, have people that will sit there and not say the very things that are required by procedure gleaned from this study. Assertiveness is an art, as well as a science. Culture is the brush Gladwell paints this chapter with, and it colors the topic completely. Short of some technical jargon being a bit off, his rendition is spot on.

Great read on the math thing too.

Outliers was time well spent.

I can’t believe you won’t tell us why the planes went down or why the Asians are so good in math. Poop head!

@ Ned – Thanks for clearing that up! BTW, I love the look of your site and I’d urge others to check it out.

BTW everybody. I am going to give away a load of my own books and audio programs next week. Still working on how to do it, but the audio version of Tipping Point will be one and maybe the Steve Hagan book (although maybe not because I may re-read it) too.

There are some great books that I have earmarked on personal development and also sales.

There won’t be a catch, it’ll simply be a giveaway and I’m prepared to pay shipping as long as it’s within the US and Canada. Stay tuned.

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