Malcolm Gladwell Blink Analysis

Malcom Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who also is one of the bestselling author of the century. He had written total of five books and one of them has become the bestselling and started his writer career is “Blink”. The book “Blink” was publish in 2005 and it is about how human subconscious interfere with the decision making. Human mind works in a weird way that nobody can understand. Many psychologists have tried to study human mind to see how it works the way it is. In Blink, Gladwell introduces psychology into the explanation of why people think the way they do. He also works with psychologists who learned to predict how long the marriage will last base on the observation of a couple. It is fascinating to learn about the work of the mind and how people do and think what they think. Malcolm Gladwell will explain it in Blink. The term thin-slice means that making a decision without or very little knowledge or information of anything. Malcolm often use this term in Blink to analyze the concept of “thinking without thinking”. People sometime make or have to make a snap judgement to a person or a situation. This thin-slicing decision is occurring almost every minute in people daily lives. It is perhaps this concept of thin-slicing, the power to think without thinking and to take …show more content…
Sometime, gut-feeling is making a lot of sense to decision making. Even though it is only a two second split decision but it could be the key to change faith of anything. The history could change by just a blink of an eye. Thin-slicing decision making can be learnt and practiced through training. We are genetically programmed with knowledge that arms us with the ability to make good decisions. Also too much information could intercepting the thin-slicing decision making. Human mind is the most powerful weapon to mankind, treasure it and helps it develops to its full potential to make good decisions in