How Do Gladwell And Anthes Portray Effectiveness?

Not many people, including myself, have come to the conclusion that our surroundings does, in fact, influence our focus and/or behavior, according to the readings of Malcolm Gladwell and Emily Anthes. In both their works, Gladwell and Anthes demonstrate examples in which our settings, and even words, affect the way we think and portray creativeness, due to the shape and size of the sites we inhabit. In chapter two of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Gladwell brings to light of something called priming. According to Gladwell, priming refers to faint triggers that influence our behavior while our consciousness is unaware of such changes (Gladwell 53-54). Examples Gladwell announces includes a situation where he asks the reader to imagine Gladwell is the professor and he asks the reader to come to his office to make a grammatical sentence from the five word scrambled sentence he provides (Gladwell 52). These sentences all comprise of one word that are in reference to the state of “old”. After having completed this test, Gladwell states the student would have walked out of the office slower than he/she did walking in (Gladwell 53). Gladwell primed the reader with scrambled words that conformed with the condition of old such as words like lonely, gray, bingo, and wrinkle (Gladwell 53).
Since this was discovered, prizewinning biologist and Doctor Jonas Salk and other scientists are uncovering clues on how to promote creativity, relaxation, social intimacy, and keep students focused and alerted during classes. Buildings are being constructed and completed with the outlook of creating a place corresponding to its purpose, whether it be higher ceilings, a view of nature through a window, the shape of furniture, and the intensity of lighting in the room