Stefani Daoud
J. Arredondo
English 114
27 September 2017
The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions In chapter two of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking titled The Locked Door:The Secret Life of Snap Decisions by Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for the New Yorker, describes the many different ways our unconscious works. Gladwell describes how Vic Braden, one of the world’s top tennis coaches, can tell when a tennis player is about to double-fault just by observing the player. Vic braden was a world class tennis player when he was younger. He is now in his seventies and has coached many of the greatest tennis players in the history of tennis. Braden lies in bed at night, and it drives him crazy, trying to figure out how he is able to tell when a tennis player is about to double-fault but cannot come up with anything. Braden tried to look inside his “locked door” or unconscious and tried to figure out what it was that made him make his decisions on tennis players making double-faults but could not. Gladwell believed that it is something in Braden’s unconscious that helps him make a snap judgement.
In Chapter two of Blink, Gladwell writes about an evening in a Manhattan bar that involves speed-dating. Kailynn, the speed-dating coordinator of the evening, states that every man would have a six minute conversation with each woman. The women in the bar would sit and not move for the duration of the night and the men would move around from woman to woman. The speed-daters were handed a short form, a badge, and a number and if they were interested in someone after the six minutes were up they needed to check off the box next …show more content…
Those are a few of the things I look for in a potential
J. Arredondo
English 114
27 September 2017
The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions In chapter two of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking titled The Locked Door:The Secret Life of Snap Decisions by Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for the New Yorker, describes the many different ways our unconscious works. Gladwell describes how Vic Braden, one of the world’s top tennis coaches, can tell when a tennis player is about to double-fault just by observing the player. Vic braden was a world class tennis player when he was younger. He is now in his seventies and has coached many of the greatest tennis players in the history of tennis. Braden lies in bed at night, and it drives him crazy, trying to figure out how he is able to tell when a tennis player is about to double-fault but cannot come up with anything. Braden tried to look inside his “locked door” or unconscious and tried to figure out what it was that made him make his decisions on tennis players making double-faults but could not. Gladwell believed that it is something in Braden’s unconscious that helps him make a snap judgement.
In Chapter two of Blink, Gladwell writes about an evening in a Manhattan bar that involves speed-dating. Kailynn, the speed-dating coordinator of the evening, states that every man would have a six minute conversation with each woman. The women in the bar would sit and not move for the duration of the night and the men would move around from woman to woman. The speed-daters were handed a short form, a badge, and a number and if they were interested in someone after the six minutes were up they needed to check off the box next …show more content…
Those are a few of the things I look for in a potential