Blink: the power of thinking without thinking Malcolm Gladwell When I saw the title‚ Blink: the power of thinking without thinking‚ I have decided in a blink of an eye that I have to read the book. And it was the best thing to do. The book opens with a very interesting case study: an unusual piece of art (korus) has been discovered and brought to a museum for selling. There‚ the museum’s group of art experts‚ after having studied and analyzed thoroughly the statue‚ elicits it is an
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Brittany LeBlanc Professor Holliday Art History 111A 15 November 2010 Gravestone of a Woman with Her Attendant The Gravestone of a Woman with her attendant is a sculpture created by an unknown artist and is now on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu‚ California. The sculpture is of a woman seated in a cushioned armchair‚ reaching out to lightly touch the top of a box or chest held by her attendant. We can tell from the sculpture that the women is of a higher class because of how her hair is
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In Blink‚ Malcolm Gladwell makes a number of arguments that call a bigger one: the human mind and all its various functions process at such a fast speed that its body can’t react quickly to render those processes physically. Gladwell introduces the concept of “thin-slicing” in Blink‚ the innate ability to gauge an environment and draw out conclusions at almost lightning-fast speeds. This ability leaves some humans concluding certain points that they can’t initially explain why or how. Through this
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1. Chapter 1-3 Gladwell tells the reader that success is based on opportunity and experience rather than truly being good at something. Extended Metaphor: “the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it it’s the tallest because no other trees blocked its sunlight‚ the soil around it was deep and rich‚ no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling‚ and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.” Rhetorical question: “…they had performed
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Marko Ceki Mrs. Reed AP Lang 3A 15 November 2012 Blink Blink is a book about rapid cognition‚ about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time‚ or walk into a house you are thinking of buying‚ or read the first few sentences of a book‚ your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. From this book I learned many things for example that our brain is like a big computer that contains and processes lots of data. This book showed
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The Getty Villa is a place that you can spend time alone without any disturbance from your friends‚ family‚ and your workplace. It is truly a wonderful place for those that preferred to isolate themselves from stressful problems or to look for a quiet place to clear their mind‚ especially for those that are having difficulty in their life. Furthermore‚ it is sometimes best to stay alone to think and organize your thoughts. For example‚ many crucial decisions that might lead to a huge opportunity
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AP 16 August 2009 The Beauty of Snap Decisions Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell embodies the entire subject of the book “Blink‚” in both the title of the book‚ and the phrase “thin-slicing‚” which is a person ability to accurately gauge what is important from a very narrow period of time. To put it simply‚ impulsive decisions can often be more reliable than well thought out decisions. Gladwell provided the reader with multiple examples throughout each chapter of the book to back up his
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Essay I : Gladwell argues that success is not the result of innate talent‚ but of practice and of being in the right place at the right time. Critically evaluate this argument. Malcolm Gladwel Analyses in his latest book Outliers ‚ the circumstances that made some people successful . He shows another aspect of their self-made rise to success. Gladwell gives the definition of an outlier as an unusual person ‘classed differently from a main or related body’ (2008:3)‚ in other words out of the ordinary
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English 101 Visionary On September 11th 2001‚ the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil occurred. Radical hijackers crashed passenger planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers in New York‚ toppling the 110-story Twin Towers‚ killing all aboard the jets and more than 3‚000 people on the ground. Architect of the Twin Towers‚ Minoru Yamasaki‚ said upon their completion in 1972‚ “The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace... a representation
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connect oneself to another. Twitter‚ Facebook‚ Vine‚ and other now big social networking sites have become one of the most important ways to connect and to use those connections to create change or to join others who are involved in social change. Gladwell introduces the idea in Small Change that “The world‚ we are told‚ is in the midst of a revolution” (232). Communication is being altered daily‚ and over the years has changed from social activism sparked only by person-to-person contact‚ to telephone
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