tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20407004.post-61697956987674234672008-06-30T19:26:00.002-08:002008-06-30T19:36:05.064-08:00I am in the midst of a fascinating book entitled, <a href="http://www.gladwell.com/blink/">"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell</a>. The author's premise is that the rapid cognition that goes on in the first few seconds of an event is powerfully useful and should not automatically be discarded.<br /><br />Most of us have had an immediate hunch about a person or event. Our training is to shove those hunches aside, but Gladwell says they are part of a second decision-making process that runs alongside our deliberate conscious mental processes.....just a lot faster.<br /><br />Just as our conscious processes can suffer from blind spots and wrong conclusions, so can our rapid cognition, but that doesn't mean the the result should be discarded. <br /><br />More later....this is good stuff.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20407004-6169795698767423467?l=awildolivebranch.blogspot.com'/></div>David in Alaskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576251518506124905noreply@blogger.com0