The Power of Positive Thinking was a minister. He writes that Peale's books have no connection to Christianity and that they “influence, mislead and often disillusion sick, maladjusted, unhappy or ill-constructed people, obscuring for them the Christian realities. They offer easy comforts, easy solutions to problems and mysteries that sometimes perhaps, have no comforts or solutions at all, in glib, worldly terms. They offer a cheap 'happiness' in lieu of the joy Christianity can offer.” While contemporary theologians and mental health experts criticized Peale's teachings in "The Power of Positive Thinking," the general public praised the self-help book. The "Los Angeles Times" estimates that “legions
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking nature, "Blink" exploits popular new-age beliefs about the power of the subconscious, intuition, even the paranormal. "Blink" devotes a significant number of pages to the so-called theory of mind reading. While allowing that mind-reading can "sometimes" go wrong, the book enthusiastically celebrates the apparent success of the practice, despite hosts of scientific tests showing that claims of clairvoyance rarely beat the odds of random chance guessing. Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow" which speaks to rationality's advantages over intuition, says: Malcolm Gladwell does not believe that intuition is magic. He really doesn't...But here his story