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Oct 17, 2012DaveMarsh rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Got about 75 pages in before losing patience. Pages upon pages in this slim volume are devoted to anecdotes about people making quick decisions in their line of work. And the point of them, in all their abundant detail, mostly just seems to be: here's someone who has to make quick decisions. All this is stitched together with some questionable science about the brain; as far as I got, the author was claiming dopamine interactions are responsible for just about everything. This struck me as an oversimplification at best. I suppose the thinness of the science might account for the lengthiness of the anecdotes. The form of the writing is OK, and the ice-cream cone cover art idea is cute. But otherwise I felt this book is inferior even to many self-help titles, never mind more serious efforts to explain how the brain works. This book's title strongly implies it is more of the latter type, and it falls far short.