Malcolm Gladwell's Blink

Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink, suggests that thin-slicing suggests that spontaneous decisions are either better of just as good as carefully planned and considered decisions. Gladwell supports his claim by using examples of how normal, every-day people have had experiences with thin-slicing. Gladwell’s purpose is to use examples of regular people and their experiences with thin-slicing in order to persuade readers that intuitive judgment is developed by experience, training, and knowledge. Gladwell adopts an informative tone for teens, adults, and teachers. Gladwell makes a few main points and uses a few main characters to help his audience understand his main points better. Gladwell began his book by using the story of how the Getty …show more content…
Less is better states that knowing little about someone or something helps you make correct predictions or assumptions about the person or thing, which means a person does not need a lot of information to correctly predict something. Intuition versus experience discusses how our subconscious mind places a particular emphasis upon appearance, which means that we think we are deciding due to our unbiased intuition, but the fact of the matter is that we do not realize that our intuition is influenced by our life experiences. Awareness refers to the realization that the subconscious is affected by experiences, as well as by society, and it also refers to the credence that should be given to a person’s first two-second impression. One issue that stands above all the others is the issue of decision making. Decision making stands out above all the other issues since its accuracy of judgement interferes with making decisions since better judgements are executed through snap judgements than with volumes of analysis. The issue and the theme both correlate to decision making and how to be better at