Reaction To Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink'

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell I had an overall good reaction to this book. My first thought when looking at the cover was that it was going to be boring but as I began reading it, I realized that not only is it not boring, it's actually rather interesting, but it could also help me in my life as well. I have a tendency to over think even the simplest things and when I do make a quick decision, I always second guess myself. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell is a book that really makes you think about the way you react to things and why you react that way. It shows that the decisions we make quickly are just as good as the ones that require a lot of thought. It explains to us why we should trust our instincts, however, sometimes it's not good to follow
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
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