Blink

In the book ¨Blink¨, the author Malcolm Gladwell explains his research on how the brain makes connections and comes to conclusions. One does this from the information around them without even knowing, which is called “thin-slicing”. “Thin-slicing” is one’s skill in their unconscious with a small amount of experience to “find patterns in situations” (23) and make an accurate explanation. In Gladwell’s first section, ‘The Love Lab’, the psychologist John Gottman gives his analysis of the data he…

Things get blown out of proportion and turned into bigger deals than they are. The song “I Miss You” by Blink-182 shows that thoughts can keep you up at night and trouble you: “Where are you? And I’m so sorry. I cannot sleep. I cannot dream tonight. I need somebody and always this sick strange darkness comes creeping on, so haunting every time...” This loneliness…

In the book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell argues that small amounts of information are just as good or better than well thought out and detailed information or decisions. Gladwell uses stories from colleagues and studies to support his claims. Gladwell uses these to appeal to one’s ethics and logic. Gladwell uses the work done by one of his colleagues at John Gottman’s lab to show that a little information can go a long way. Gottman came up with a way to analyse marriages from conversations with a…

In the Blink of an Eye She is an enchantress. She is the thin crimson film of blood enveloping slashed wrists. She is a flame gone wild. She burns and she swallows. She is the agony of salt buried in a knife wound. She is the destructive madness of love and hatred. She is fire, for fire burns and it swallows. She is fire. She is fire, and her name is Red. I used to live like I was meant to. With a home and a mother, and affluence and wealth. My mother was happy, and I was not, simply because…

Blink Essay Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink presents a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks, each the result of a different social science experiment. Many of these ideas are applicable to the rest of our lives. There are three main sections that have great meaning in this book, "Seven Second in the Bronx," the "Love Lab," and "Blink in Black and White." These sections show the true meaning of why the book Blink…

someone in a Blink as we would spending months with them? Malcolm Gladwell sure thinks so in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In it he explains several aspects of psychology, specifically snap judgments and the adaptive unconscious through many studies, facts, and tests. “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis,” states Gladwell (Gladwell). What is seen in this blink of an eye? What controls this? What is it? This Blink is known…

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…

“Fascinating! Eye-Opening! Important!” David Brooks said it best. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell was all those things and more. Gladwell did a great job writing this book. It was wonderful. He takes us through many different stories to explain how we think. He shows us what snap judgments are, and how and when to use them. He educates us on how we think, and it’s enlightening. He starts off the book with a story of a statue, more specifically a kouros. A man…

Decisions are made everyday by humans some are easy others are impossible to choose, and there is a great deal of influences that go behind a decision. However in Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell shows the reader different ideologies of various tactics of decision making with contrasting influences, furthermore Gladwell establishes the power of snap judgements with ideas from the book. Gladwell seeks to persuade the reader to employ his concepts of decision making in everyday life, using…

1. Which story or poem did you enjoy most so far this semester? Why? My poem of decision is “Blink Your Eyes” by Sekou Sundiata. The poem gets me in light of the fact that he composes a perfect impression of social partiality through the eyes of a black man, who gets himself limited by the supremacist laws that control his environment. He clarifies an episode each youthful black male experiences. Through intense metaphorical dialect, dialog and reiteration, Sundiata catches the boundaries…