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  • Blink Judgements Improve with Experience

    Blink Judgements Improve with Experience

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    Blink Judgements Improve with Experience and age as mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink.

    I have had first hand experience of this fact from my life experience. Having noticed patterns I am able to take a lot of decisions in the blink of an eye and yet succeed. One such example is of choosing the locality where I live in.

    Malcom Gladwell mentions the same concept in his best selling book titled Blink.

    He argues that the power of snap judgements improve with age and experience since we are able to see more patterns.

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/role-of-experience-in-blink-judgements/

    Nothing explains the philosophy behind such judgements than this insight mentioned below:

    Blink Judgements Improve with Experience
  • Role of experience in Blink Judgements

    Role of experience in Blink Judgements

    Very frequently gut decisions are also referred to as blink or snap judgements that come to us instinctively. The role of experience in these blink judgement is undeniable as I have experienced with age.

    Malcom Gladwell mentions the same concept in his best selling book titled Blink.

    He argues that the power of snap judgements improve with age and experience since we are able to see more patterns.

    I have experience the same in my personal and work life as well. Many of my gut decisions with age and experience are correct because of the patterns I am able to identify.

    The following insight from Malcom Gladwell in Blink is indeed very insightful.

    Role of experience in Blink Judgements

    For another insightful post from the same book, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/is-your-taste-getting-esoteric-by-the-day-the-reason/

  • How Experience drive SNAP JUDGEMENTS?

    How Experience drive SNAP JUDGEMENTS?

    I do trust my gut instincts and thoroughly believe what Malcolm Gladwell has prescribed in his book Blink. In this book we come to understand how experience drive snap judgements.

    With experience and education our instincts become stronger and hence gives us the wisdom to make snap judgements in the blink of an eye.

    Read these insightful posts inspired from Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink to know more about snap judgements and the power of Blink.

    The power of SNAP judgements comes through experience , this explains..

  • Is your TASTE getting ESOTERIC by the day? The reason..

    The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book Blink.

    “When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”

    Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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  • Why is STORYTELLING a TOUGH SKILL?

    The insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink..

    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”

    Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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  • SNAP Judgements are real, do you agree?

    The following insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink and illuminates us on the power of snap judgements.

    “Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”

  • What makes a FIRST IMPRESSION so important?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink..

    “Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”

    Read a similar post adopted from the same book

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/2021/02/20/isnt-this-such-a-natural-consequence-with-expertise/

  • How good a STORYTELLER are you?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink..

    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”

    Read similar blogs adopted from the book Blink.

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/2020/10/10/wonderful-illustration-of-blink-judgements-has-this-ever-happened-to-you/

  • Isn’t this a COMMON PATTERN with all GENIUSES?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath

    “Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.”

  • Why is too much of RATIONAL THINKING a deterrent to PROGRESS?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath

    “As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”