Statue That Didn T Look Right Essay
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Pages 13-14: (1)“We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. We really only trust conscious decision making... 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.”
(2)The quote above is in the introduction, "The Statue That Didn't Look Right". The quote if in between the end of three of the author's examples of rapid cognition and right before the author admits that snap decisions can also betray us sometimes. It represents the introductory tone of "The Statue That Didn't Look Right and of the entire book itself. (3)The quote's significance …show more content…
In this quote, Gladwell is in the middle of explaining that diagnosing heart attacks is actually simpler than doctors think. This section deals with the effects of an excessive amount of information on our decision-making skills. (3)The proposal in this quote is very radical and is basically the idea of the entire book: That too much information is useless and can actually prove to be harmful to the decision making process. The reason for this is that the information just isn't relevant to the actual decision and because of this, the information drowns out the "underlying signature of a complex phenomenon." (4)From this quote, I realize that Gladwell is not only telling us about Blink, but he's actually using the methods in Blink to write the book. He doesn't stay on particular stories very long and he doesn't use a ridiculous amount of information like other psychology books. This makes the book much more authentic and credible. (5)If I were to completely live by the principles of Blink, I would definitely have to work at taking in less information because I consider way too many unimportant things when making a decision. (6)I think I should let you know that by the time I wrote this quote, I had finished the book. I just didn't want to keep stopping to write a journal every time I saw a good
Pages 13-14: (1)“We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. We really only trust conscious decision making... 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.”
(2)The quote above is in the introduction, "The Statue That Didn't Look Right". The quote if in between the end of three of the author's examples of rapid cognition and right before the author admits that snap decisions can also betray us sometimes. It represents the introductory tone of "The Statue That Didn't Look Right and of the entire book itself. (3)The quote's significance …show more content…
In this quote, Gladwell is in the middle of explaining that diagnosing heart attacks is actually simpler than doctors think. This section deals with the effects of an excessive amount of information on our decision-making skills. (3)The proposal in this quote is very radical and is basically the idea of the entire book: That too much information is useless and can actually prove to be harmful to the decision making process. The reason for this is that the information just isn't relevant to the actual decision and because of this, the information drowns out the "underlying signature of a complex phenomenon." (4)From this quote, I realize that Gladwell is not only telling us about Blink, but he's actually using the methods in Blink to write the book. He doesn't stay on particular stories very long and he doesn't use a ridiculous amount of information like other psychology books. This makes the book much more authentic and credible. (5)If I were to completely live by the principles of Blink, I would definitely have to work at taking in less information because I consider way too many unimportant things when making a decision. (6)I think I should let you know that by the time I wrote this quote, I had finished the book. I just didn't want to keep stopping to write a journal every time I saw a good