The Power of Positive Thinking believe and live successfully.” Peale's work came under criticism from various mental health experts, theologians, and academics. One general criticism against Peale's book was the lack of verified sources. "The Power of Positive Thinking" includes many personal anecdotes that the reader has no way of validating. The book includes stories about “a business executive”, “a man, an alcoholic”, “a famous trapeze artist”, “a friend of [Peale’s], a midwestern businessman”, and other unnamed individuals which cannot be verified from the information Peale presents with each anecdote. R. C. Murphy, a prominent psychiatrist based out of Tacoma, Washington, addresses another criticism of
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