The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.” Gladwell's purpose is to help us become better decision makers by showing us how to make better, rapid judgments and how important …show more content…
Whether it be the food we're about to eat not tasting good or whether something bad is about to happen at a party you're at. We've all felt it, we've just never been able to pinpoint what exactly that feeling is. In the last chapter of "Blink", Malcolm Gladwell tells the story of a firefighter who answered a call about a fire in the kitchen in the back of a one-and-a-half story house. When the firefighters started to attempt to put the fire out with water, the fire didn't subside like it should have. When the fire lieutenant noticed that the fire wasn't going away, he knew something was wrong and he immediately ordered his men out. Moments after they left the building, the floor in the kitchen they had been standing on collapsed and they realized that the fire had been in the basement and not the kitchen like they had thought. After seeing this, Gladwell found it interesting that the lieutenant couldn't explain how he knew that something was wrong and to immediately get out. According to Gladwell, the fireman just "blinked" and made the right decision from behind the locked door in our brain and if he hadn't trusted his instinct all those fireman probably would have died. From this book, we learn that a lot of the time we don't understand why we make most of the decisions we do, even when they end up being the right decision. However, Gladwell tells us that the reason we make those decisions