When I have copies of Malcolm Gladwell’s books floating around in my apartment, I must inhale the sparks of wisdom within them before moving on to anything else. ‘Blink’ brings us insights into how our mind works. How best to determine a situation and arrive at a solution using first instincts or when to delve into deep analysis. The stuck-in-the-mud situations we most often get into with analysis-paralysis. The idea of making better decisions with less information. Again Malcolm Gladwell brings brilliant bytes of informative stories to enlight us and why we must consider new ways of deciphering the world - “When to blink and when to think”.
“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.” - Sigmund Freud
