your gut feeling or intuition about situations can be described in a different manner. In the book “Blink” By Malcolm Gladwell‚ Gladwell describes his theory on thin slicing‚ how it works and how we can utilize this unconscious tool for our own benefit. Thin slicing is when the unconscious mind automatically identifies patterns developed from past experiences and makes what Gladwell calls snap judgments. He shows several examples of when thin slicing can be beneficial as well as a few flaws in the
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Gladwell opens "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" with the tale of a kouros‚ an ancient Greek statue of a youth that entered the market‚ catching the eye of the Getty Museum in California. It was close to seven feet tall‚ perfectly preserved‚ and just under $10 million. The museum went through the voluminous processes to prove its authenticity. A geologist determined that the statue originated in the island of Thasos‚ sheathed in a thin layer of calcite‚ a substance that accumulates
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The Tipping Point The Tipping Point‚ written by Malcolm Gladwell‚ explains epidemics. He explains how a few key elements come together and help reach a point where they are spreading and cannot be stopped. The ways that some trends achieve popularity while others sputter and fade fade away have long been thought to be not known. However‚ Gladwell’s is that there are actually a number of factors that are at play in virtually every influential trend. These rules are The Law of The Few‚ The Stickiness
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prestigious backgrounds‚simple lives of less fortunate can also contribute to the level of success one can achieve in life.Success is greatly influenced by one’s lifestyle and background because they motivate one to strive for change like Malcolm Gladwell‚ who advocated the importance of underdogs‚the poem “if” with the theme of success and the eminent writer‚shakespeare’s famous quote which provides germane details on the impact of one’s background that defines complete success in life.Success is
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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In the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second‚ in the blink of the eye‚ are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the lives of several people who make‚ or have made‚ important snap decisions with a high level of success or failure. He then explains the logic behind each story and relates it back to his original principle
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The Game Theory by Malcolm Gladwell‚ gives amazing insight into the world of professional sport statistics. Gladwell argues that athletic dominance in a team sport can’t always be seen by the eye. Allen Iverson‚ for instance‚ was the 2001-2002 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. He was viewed as one of the best basketball players of his generation. However an algorithm devised by David Berry‚ Martin Schmidt‚ and Stacey Brook‚ shows the true value of a basketball player by grading their number of wins they
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Within Gladwell’s books the prevalent theme of the little things comes up constantly. The Tipping Point being the book where it prevails the most. Gladwell believes that the little things define most of the outcome in life. When he begins the book he starts off with mentioning that economists talk about “...the 80/20 principle… the idea that… 80% of the “work” will be done by 20% of the participants’’. In daily life it can be found that the 80/20 principle takes place for example a group project
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Blink‚ by Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ discusses the idea of thin slicing‚ the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations from small samples. Gladwell also delves into the positive and negative effects of snap judgments and how people come to conclusions withoutbeing consciously aware of doing so. One topic of the book that intrigued me was the research of John Gottman and Paul Ekman. Gottman is a psychologist and professor who has spent most of his career studying interpersonal relationships
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” Malcolm Gladwell addresses that while social media can quickly spread information among a large group of people‚ it is not the driving force of social activism. According to Gladwell‚ real change cannot be achieved through the impersonal use of social media. People who use social media‚ especially those who participate in social media activism‚ are most affected by Gladwell’s words. Gladwell effectively backs his argument by utilizing different modes of development and middle diction. Most prominently
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