If like me you have read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, and like me you are easily influenced, you will have adopted a mentality whereby you make gung-ho, snap decisions on the basis of gut instinct. This, in a nutshell, is the philosophy espoused within the book – make knee-jerk choices like a barmy fat cat and never stop to reflect. Actually it’s highly likely that I’m massively oversimplifying Gladwell’s book, as I didn’t bother to read all of it. I just read the first page, gleaned that it was about making gut decisions and then made the gut decision to stop reading it. I’ve never looked back.
— from Russell Brand’s column in The Guardian
