nuggets from blink by malcolm @gladwell - via @getnuggetapp
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Decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves. Malcolm Gladwell
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‘Thin-slicing' refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behaviour based on very narrow slices of experience.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Thin-slicing often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If you want to get a good idea of whether I'd make a good employee, drop by my house one day and take a look around.
Malcolm Gladwell
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What people say about themselves can also be very confusing, for the simple reason that most of us aren't very objective about ourselves.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Snap judgments and rapid cognition take place behind a locked door.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. Malcolm Gladwell
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What we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Sometimes we're better off if the mind behind the locked door makes our decisions for us.
Malcolm Gladwell
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We can know more about someone or something in the blink of an eye than we can after months of study.
Malcolm Gladwell
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We don't deliberately choose our unconscious attitudes.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Being short is probably as much of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an African American.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Improvisation comedy is a wonderful example of the kind of thinking that Blink is about.
Malcolm Gladwell
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How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Deliberate thinking is a wonderful tool when we have the luxury of time. Malcolm Gladwell
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If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to consider much more than your unconscious is comfortable with, you get paralyzed.
Malcolm Gladwell
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When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown in the data.
Malcolm Gladwell
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We like market research because it provides certainty. But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty.
Malcolm Gladwell
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It is really only experts who are able to reliably account for their reactions.Malcolm Gladwell
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We come up with a plausible-sounding reason for why we might like or dislike something, and then we adjust our true preference to be in line with that plausible-sounding reason.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Inferring the motivations and intentions of others is classic thin-slicing. It is picking up on subtle, fleeting cues in order to read someone's mind. Malcolm Gladwell
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The face has, to a large extent, a mind of its own. Malcolm Gladwell
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There is enough accessible information on a face to make everyday mind reading possible.
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All of us gravitate toward things that mean something to us, and for most of us, that's people. Malcolm Gladwell
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Most of us, under pressure, get too aroused, and past a certain point, our bodies begin shutting down so many sources of information that we start to become useless.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Arousal leaves us mind-blind.
Malcolm Gladwell
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There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear.
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Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.
Malcolm Gladwell
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