Thesis: In this book‚ Gladwell brings light to judging a book by its cover. He takes note of how "our world requires that decisions be sourced and foot noted‚ and if we say how we feel‚ we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way". He then continues to explain how "we need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that--sometimes--we’re better off that way". 2) Body Paragraphs 1/2: Summary a) Opening: Gladwell describes the main subject
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell I had an overall good reaction to this book. My first thought when looking at the cover was that it was going to be boring but as I began reading it‚ I realized that not only is it not boring‚ it’s actually rather interesting‚ but it could also help me in my life as well. I have a tendency to over think even the simplest things and when I do make a quick decision‚ I always second guess myself. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell is a book that really makes you think about the
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚ he takes a new twist on the idea of thin-slicing‚ which he describes as‚ “the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience” (23). Throughout the four previous chapters‚ he explained how thin-slicing works and how it can be useful in everyday life. However‚ in this chapter‚ offers the other side of thin-slicing‚ demonstrating how it cannot always be trusted. He shows how it can be also be
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Academic Reading and Writing I Discursive essay Thin-slicing for Citizens of Kazakhstan Instructor’s name: Brad Comann Student’s name: Ruslan Assanbekov “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in month of rational analysis” ~Malcolm Gladwell‚ Blink (9). Every day we are faced with decisions. The quality of them often determines the pattern of our lives. There’s the question:
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available. In the book Blink‚ Gladwell‚ the author‚ discusses the adaptive unconsciousness. He refers to the process as thin slicing – using small pieces of information to make rapid decisions‚ which he portrays as an amazing decision making tool. He then addresses the fact that as amazing as thin-slicing is‚ it has disadvantages too. First impressions are not always accurate. The pattern the brain uses to come to conclusions is based on personal experiences‚ therefore thin-slicing‚ is dependent on perception
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Outline of paper proposed to be to be contributed to: CONSUMER INSIGHTS 2008 Dubai 9-11 February 2009 Title of paper: Mushin No Shin The mindless approach to Insight generation Authors: Name: Mr Arun Joshi Qualifications: Bachelor of Technology‚ Postgraduate Diploma in Management Position in the company: Regional Head: EEMEA Knowledge Management and Client Development Full address: The Nielsen Company PO Box 22525 Sharjah United Arab Emirates Phone: +971 6 517 4202
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Thesis: People should not trust their ability to thin-slice in situations. I think that Malcolm Gladwell has proven that in experts‚ decisions should not be made in the blink of an eye. Body 2: Similarly‚ the concept of thin-slicing has its disadvantages because it proves that people are “really vulnerable to being guided by stereotypes‚”(Gladwell‚ 233). This holds true in cases often regarding race. For example‚ prior to the school integration of white and black children in the late 1950’s‚
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slicing. The dark side of thin-slicing can be so devastating to business operations‚ decision making and other activities that requires unconscious cognition. That’s why I will recommend this book to any business man. In the case of the Van Rider’s victory story‚ we can learn a fundamental lesson that can be used even during a war. “The first thing I told our staff is that we would be in command and out of control”‚ Van Riper said when he was in the millennium challenge. He actually meant the soldiers
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they do and also why people do the things that they do. I learned about thin slicing and about people like John Bargh that did many Priming experiments. I learned about thin slicing in my AP psychology class but I did not not fully understand it and therefore didn’t know that it is used in everyday life. The term thin-slicing means making very quick decisions with small amounts of information. Gladwell posits that thin-slicing can have its uses or can be a mistake. If someone takes a small amount
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child development one of which was conservation. He believed that children of certain ages did not understand the concept of conservation‚ such as children believing that the amount of water changes if poured from a short‚ wide container into a tall‚ thin container. Many people criticised Piagets theory because they believed that children actually could conserve at a younger age than Piaget had initially stated. This essay is going to discuss Piaget’s theory of conservation and if this is the case that
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