idea by stating how humanity’s first impression on others occurs within two seconds of meeting the individual. He explains that people “think without thinking” and indulge in “thin slicing”; a term in which he defines it as our ability to make a decision in the blink of an eye. In Gladwell’s book‚ he denotes that thin slicing is
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and an experiment using a gambling game to drive home the point that our mind unconsciously does reach a conclusion swiftly when faced with a situation where we have to take decisions. Gladwell calls this process of swift intuitive conclusion‚ “thin slicing” and explains the concept by citing a series of experiments and instances - how a psychologist named John Gottman predicts the strength of marriages just by listening to a few minutes of conversation between a couple‚ how a psychologist Samuel
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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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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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a person‚and relationships by watching clips to viewing a room to labeling a marriage. Gladwell gets to experience how marriage can turn from better to worse. Blink introduces us to the power of thin-slicing by doing experiments. Take the Love Lab where physiologist John Gottman has been thin-slicing the way
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Malcolm Gladwell‚ a best-selling author‚ describes the social phenomenon known as thin-slicing in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Thin-slicing refers to the way that people take in little information quickly and make judgements with or without knowing they are doing so. Gladwell asserts that thin-slicing is imperative in save time and make valuable predictions. Gladwell’s inference is well supported with psychologists’ research and data collected on the subconscious. Gladwell’s
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correct conclusions in only two seconds. To start‚ He brought up the concept of “thin slicing” which means taking minute details about someone or something and using that thin slice to develop a larger opinion of him‚ her‚ or it. This he explained with examples like such as strangers rather than friends being able to more accurately identify someone’s personality based on a 15-minute look at his or her dorm room. Thin Slicing has become an essential element because whenever a person looks at something
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subsections by weaving or slicing the hair. Weaving is when you go over and under a thin section of hair. Slicing is when you go straight through the hair with a pin tail comb. (Make sure the section is thin for both weaving and slicing). After taking the section you take a foil and fold it to protect the hair and surrounding areas. Make sure the entire strand is covered with
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During my last remaining weeks of procrastination I found this book was enjoyable until its unfortunate end of the last page. The book held many favorable page turners for me. As I was already a fan of how people’s minds work. It talked about thin-slicing‚ the ability to look at the part of the problem everyone looks over and use that in order to make decisions. One example was an experiment done by the scientist‚ John Gottman. Gottman believed he could determine whether married couples were going
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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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