The power of thinking without thinking

In our Life many times, we come to a judgment about people ,places & things ,obviously on the basis of some reasons that we can’t explain at all………………..
Sometimes even the best decisions are those that are impossible to explain to others. And if you try, it may seem like:

!!!!! Well I think “ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?”* is the reason I went for this..!!!!!

Why? This is so.
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{*Think of a short beep you’ll get an idea.}

Blink has explained it beautifully. The very first message I got from the book is same as one gets from parents, teachers & well wishers (not always) when one’s decision taken gets flopped.
“i.e. Haste makes waste.”
But truly speaking got it with two additional words: “does “, “not”.

“Haste does not make waste” can be the times when our snap judgment & first impression can offer a much better means of the making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladewell in Blink reveals that great decision aren’t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating but those who have perfected the art of thin-slicing – knowing the very few things that matter.
Here is the one of the great experiments mentioned in the book:
Suppose you are considering me for job. You have my resume & think I have necessary credentials. You want to know whether I am right fit for the job. You have two options

1. Meet me twice a week for one year- have lunch, dinner or go for movie*
2. Drop by my house when I am not there & spend half an hour or so looking around**

Which would you choose?
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*I am not goanna pay for any of them
**Don’t dare to choose this one if you are a kleptomaniac

The seemingly first one that is –thick- slicing. More time you spend, the more information, the better off you are right.I hope if you read the book, you would be skeptical of the first one.

Samuel Gosling began an experiment by doing a personality work up on eighty college students. For this he used what is called Big Five Inventory, highly respected, multi- items questionnaire that measures personality across five dimensions. Then Gosling had close friends of those students fill out the same questionnaire. Friends of those students ranked them closely. That’s fine. Close friends know each-other well.
Gosling repeated the process with people who were strangers to the students they were judging. All they saw were their dorm rooms.
Surprisingly the dorm room visitors were more accurate of measuring conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to new experiences. On the balance, the strangers ended up doing much better job.
This suggests that it’s quite possible for people who have never met us and spent 20 minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of we are than people who have known us for years. You might find Gosling’s conclusion quite incredible but I see it as a great example of thin-slicing.

Malcolm Gladwell brought together a lot of experiments and theories from the field of neuroscience & psychology in order to support such unconscious decision making phenomena. He also claims that this of decision making can be improved by practice. After reading the book I can suggest you only two things to do that : Please purchase or borrow the book & read it.