Das sind die Blinks zu
Nonsense
The Power of Not Knowing
Nonsense (2015) is all about ambiguity and the effect it has on our lives. We encounter situations we don’t understand all the time, both in regular daily life and in extreme situations like natural disasters. These blinks outline the widespread effects, both negative and positive, that this nonsense has on our behavior, and why it’s so important to understand it.
- Anyone tasked with important decision-making
- Negotiators and mediators
- Language teachers
Jamie Holmes was an economics research coordinator at Harvard before he became a writer. His work has been published by the New York Times, CNN and The Huffington Post. Nonsense is his first book.
Kennst du schon Blinkist Premium?
Mit Blinkist Premium erhältst du Zugang zu dem Wichtigsten aus mehr als 3.000 Sachbuch-Bestsellern. Das Probeabo ist 100% kostenlos.
Premium kostenlos testenWas ist Blinkist?
Blinkist ist eine App, die die großen Ideen der besten Sachbücher in einprägsame Kurztexte verpackt und erklärt. Die Inhalte der über 3.000 Titel starken Bibliothek reichen von Sachbuch-Klassikern, über populäre Ratgeber bis hin zu diskutierten Neuerscheinungen. Basierend auf wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen wird jeder Titel von speziell geschulten Autoren aufbereitet und dem Nutzer als Kurztext und Audiotitel zur Verfügung gestellt.
Kostenlos testenDiscover
3.000+ top
nonfiction titles
Get unlimited access to the most important ideas in business, investing, marketing, psychology, politics, and more. Stay ahead of the curve with recommended reading lists curated by experts.
Kostenlos testenEntdecke die Kernaussagen zu diesem Titel:
Entdecke die Kernaussagen zu diesem Titel:
Entdecke die Kernaussagen zu diesem Titel:
Nonsense
The Power of Not Knowing
- Lesedauer: 13 Minuten
- Verfügbar in Text & Audio
- 8 Kernaussagen
Worum geht's
Nonsense (2015) is all about ambiguity and the effect it has on our lives. We encounter situations we don’t understand all the time, both in regular daily life and in extreme situations like natural disasters. These blinks outline the widespread effects, both negative and positive, that this nonsense has on our behavior, and why it’s so important to understand it.
Kernaussage 1 von 8
Amusing or eye-catching ambiguity can be a useful tool for comedians and marketers.
There’s a lot of nonsense and ambiguity in our daily lives, even though we don’t always notice it. We can’t always make sense of the things around us – and sometimes that makes us laugh!
Humor often hinges on subtle ambiguity. Consider the joke, “There are only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can’t.” It’s funny because it confuses you for a moment, then you realize that the joke rests in the fact that the teller can’t count. Small ambiguities like that grab our attention, then amuse us.
The same thing happens if someone says, “Call me a cab” and another person responds with the joke, “You’re a cab.” The humor hinges on the ambiguity of the first phrase, where “call” could mean make a phone call or call someone’s name.
Marketers know that people like this kind of playful ambiguity, and they know how to use it to their advantage. Good marketers know that ambiguity can be an effective way of grabbing people’s attention in advertising.
Sweden’s Absolut Vodka did this in the 1980s and 1990s when they launched a series of ads that featured hidden bottles you couldn’t notice right away. The fact that the vodka bottles were obscured made the ads more intriguing.
One ad, “Absolut Boston,” for example, featured several dozen Absolut Vodka cases floating in Boston Harbor. At first glance, the cases appeared to be placed randomly, but upon further inspection, you noticed that together they formed the shape of a bottle. The ad garnered a lot of attention for the company.
Nonsense isn’t always positive, however. It can also have the opposite effect.
Inhalt
- Amusing or eye-catching ambiguity can be a useful tool for comedians and marketers.
- Uncomfortable ambiguity can influence people’s opinions by making them more or less confident.
- When it comes to processing ambiguity, children are much more comfortable and imaginative than adults.
- Our aversion to ambiguity can fuel destructive politics and even extremist cults.
- People will make rash decisions in order to resolve feelings of extreme ambiguity.
- Michel Thomas developed a new method for dealing with the ambiguity in language instruction.
- It’s crucial to be able to cope with ambiguity in high-pressure situations.
- Final summary
