Reflection On Blink

Reflection on Blink
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” This book talks about how our ability make decisions and how our ability to take good decisions should not be dependent on the information or knowledge that we have on the topic. He explains how there is an idea that carefully planned and considered ideas are better and get better results but he says that spontaneous decisions are often as good or even better than the mentioned before. He mentions examples from sales, medicine, science, and advertising to backup this ideas, he also uses experiences of normal people by using the “thin slicing method”. What thin slice methodology refer is to observing a small selection of an interaction, and being able to accurately draw to conclusions in the emotions and attitudes of the people interacting. …show more content…
Sometimes we try to make decision, but we overthink and try to analyze every aspect of the consequence, and a lot of people could think that this is the right way of making a serious decision but a lot of times what really makes us or encourage us to make a decision is our impressions. I’m a really insecure person and normally I don’t trust my capacity to make decisions, but after reading this book and finding that we can trust our own instincts. Also I could relate it to following the promptings of the spirit and the gospel, sometimes we try to find logic to the influence of the spirit and we try to study it till we understand it but sometimes is just better guide us by what we feel and what the gospel or the decision in general makes us feel instead of trying to find logic to everything losing the meaning or purpose of