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I found this book to be surprisingly disappointing. For someone who has accomplished as much as this author has, you would think that he would be a little more able to provide some deep insights. There were definitely moments when I underlined a passage or put a star next to a paragraph, but overall I have some major problems. First, is that he keeps name-dropping. You can't go more than 3 pages without him listing by name some professor at a prestigious University. Why does he need to keep doing this? It seems desperate more than it should be. Second, all of his experience experiments seem to be with elite college students. This doesn't really tell me much about the general population period but if I want to know some fluffy research with elite university students, then this is the book for me. Third, there are overgeneralizations Galore! This is probably my biggest gripe. These are statements which go Way Beyond the potential findings from the experiment that he is running. And I use the word experiment lightly. Fourth, this is a very very repetitive book. He goes over the same stories again and again. For example towards the end of the book The experiments about money and cheating seemed to never end and seem to all be the same. Fifth, did he do IRB for any of these experiments? How could he give informed consent and still do the things that he is doing.? So, it is pretty clear that this is not my favorite book. I wouldn't recommend it to somebody else. And if he was trying to do a Malcolm Gladwell type book, then I don't think it was achieved.