I had been reading that book “Strangers to Ourselves” by Timothy D. Wilson for a long while, ever since last year. I could never reach the end of that book for some reason.

When I was waiting in LAX this time for the China trip, I picked up a book called “Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell. I found this book interesting with a first glance. Little did I know I just bought another book about the same topic, adaptive conscious.

Of course, the approaches of these two books are quite different. “Blink” is a lighter reading. It quotes more stories, and it doesn’t use the word “adaptive conscious.” It refers it as just unconsciousness, blink, or thin-slicing. The down side of this book is that it doesn’t give you a conclusion of how to determine the good vs. bad unconsciousness. “Strangers to Ourselves” is slightly more to the scientific side. It provides more studies, psychology researches, and so on. I have yet to read the end to learn how to learn ourselves.