...Gladwell is about first impressions and snap judgments. Gladwell has three main objectives in this book: “to convince you that “decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately,” “to learn when to listen to that powerful onboard computer and when to be wary of it,” and “to convince you that our snap judgments and first impressions can be educated and controlled.” Gladwell starts off with the story of a kouros, an ancient Greek statue that was close to being purchased by the Getty Museum in California. After 14 months of in depth research to verify the authenticity of the statue, the Getty determined that it was authentic and went ahead with the purchase. That was until one...
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...It was very quiet and that was not a good sign. It was when the third one she knocked back that concern would be an understatement. “Are you going to tell me what is bothering you or do I have to take matters into my own hands?” “Snap,” Bobby called, “Cody had a visitor today.” “Don’t tell me my mother is bothering you again. Just tell her you know how to cook and leave it at that. You may have to put her to shame once or twice, but that is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.” “The visitor was Fulton James,” Bobby said. “What did he want, a handout?” Snap spat furiously. “Or, did he want to have his butt handed to him for being in the same room with you? I wish I was there to help you toss him out on his...
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..."In the first two seconds of looking –in a single glance – they were able to understand more about the essence of the statue than the team at the Getty was able to understand after fourteen months . . . Blink is a book about those first two seconds." Gladwell begins his introduction with the story of a kouros – an ancient Greek sculpture of a young naked male – that was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983. Kouroi are very rare. As a result this particular kouros was being sold for $10 million. Because of the hefty price tag, the Getty Museum was very careful when testing to see if the kouros was a forgery. However, after 14 months of analysis, the Getty determined that the kouros was in fact real, and bought the statue. Many scholars did not agree that the kouros was real. To them, something about the statue didn’t look right. When Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, looked at the statue the first word that came to his mind was “fresh”. When Angelos Delivorrias, director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, first laid eyes upon the statue he felt a wave of immediate disgust. For a long time the validity of the kouros was hotly debated. Finally, the Getty’s case began to fall apart. As it turned out, a lot of the documents used to prove the statue’s authenticity were forged. Also, as experts began to examine the statue in great detail, they came to the realization that it used a hodgepodge of styles from many different places...
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...In Angus Chen’s article, “Can Snapchat's New 'Snap Map' Bring The World Closer Together?” the author discusses the positives that come with this new feature. He talks about how this new addition can “foster a global community or sense of togetherness” (Chen 1). By looking on Snap Maps, any user is able to see the world with the touch of their fingers and experience a new culture without leaving the comforts of their home. One issue that the writer does mention with this is that there is a possibility of someone leaking another person’s private information and graphic/violent content. He questions how SnapChat will be able to censor these pictures before it is able to reach the public. However, the writer fails to discuss the negatives that come with Snap Maps. This new terrifying feature opens an invitation of stalking, robbery, and relationship issues that can be detrimental to a community or a group of friends....
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...Thinking Without Thinking Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a book written by Malcolm Gladwell. This book introduces the concept of “thin slicing”. The concept refers to how in a split second or blink of an eye people can make an unconscious and accurate assessment of someone. Using the concept of thin slicing we can determine what is really important within the first few seconds when meeting someone. Malcolm Gladwell explained that first impressions or spontaneous decisions can be just as important as decisions that are made carefully and planned out. According to Gladwell, people make better decisions with quick judgments than they do with a lot of analysis. Gladwell believes that the power of thin slicing is not just something certain gifted people can do, it is something that everyone has the ability do. Gladwell also explains that our first decisions or first impressions can be easily corrupted by our likes, dislikes, prejudices, and stereotypes. We are thin slicing all the time according to Gladwell. Throughout the book Gladwell gives us many examples and experiments that support his concept of “thin Slicing”. Some of these examples include; predicting divorce, speed dating, gambling, malpractice suits, movies, military war games, and music. One of the important things that I have learned from reading this book is how important the process of decision making can be as a leader in business. As a business leader making decisions can make or break...
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...dated for about 10 months prior to Ms. Cohen placing a protective order against Mr. Moss. According to Ms. Cohen, during their time dating Mr. Moss had displayed a few signs of aggressive and jealous behavior. In January of 2016, Mr. Moss told Ms. Cohen that a few male acquantiances were speaking about the way she looked in her softball shirt that evening. When Ms. Cohen tried to reassure Mr. Moss about the harmlessness of the comments, Mr. Moss kicked a hole through...
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... Stereotyping involves forming a generalized opinion about how people or the candidate of a given gender, religion, race, appearance, or other characteristic actually thinks, acts, responds, or would perform in a job without any evidence that it is actually true. Stereotyping is not only hurtful but is also wrong. It is not right to constantly put someone down based on your preconceived perceptions because this will not encourage them to succeed. One example of stereotyping is presuming that a woman would prefer a desk job over working outdoors because of her gender. Another example would be the applicants’ appearance that makes him/her seem unable to do the job. Also another is not hiring or promoting married women because they are not the primary earners of their family and will most likely focus on the family rather than the job. 2. Halo Effect: The "halo" effect follows when an interviewer allows one outstanding positive feature about the candidate to overshadow or have an effect on everything else. Employers tend to generalize one exceptional point of a candidate as representative of success even if it is unrelated to the traits and skills the employers are looking for. The Halo effect is a very subjective bias about a person that actually influences the total judgment of the interviewer. The halo effect also sometimes makes us attribute all sorts of positive traits to a person with whom we have something meaningful in common. One good example would be a candidate...
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...ISU Critical Essay – Short Essay Option Our second mind is not as simple as it seems. Blink is a behavioral economics book written in 2005 by British-Canadian Journalist Malcolm Gladwell, focusing on our ability to ‘’Thin Slice’’. He explains through this ability we are able to determine what is truly important from a narrow experience, suggesting our spontaneous decisions are often better than the ones we consider. Using several engaging examples, he warns however that this ability of ours is challenged by personal likes, dislikes and overload of information, and is in our best interest to train our first impression to understand this reality through experience. The lack of scientific research in Blink also suggests that it is anecdotal, but Gladwell accepts this reality himself and thoroughly explains every point he makes in regards to this single flaw. Drawing scenarios that practice this rapid cognition from science, advertising, medicine and many others, he is also able to directly engage the reader’s subconscious by random screening and thought provocation. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory brings awareness to the power of our unconscious decision-making and proposes various strategies that offer a solution to its fallacy, maintaining his veracity in the research presented despite the lack of scientific method. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory brings awareness to the power of our unconscious decision-making. Decisions made quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously...
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...more about poverty, food stamps, etc. Who either are in poverty or are not, and with high school education and up. When it comes to poverty, I feel each year more and more families are in crisis and in need. However I also feel some people are getting government funding help who, in reality, do not need it. I am not saying everyone who is receiving help does not actually need it, but there are people out there who if they put in more effort, they wouldn’t have to depend on government assisted help nor would be struggling day to day. I have not been in a situation where I myself needed help, however I do know some people who are truly needed help and received yet, as well as others who honestly did not need the help but did not want to work hard. I am hoping my paper shows both the good and bad of today’s situation with people struggling, and hopefully some readers will have changed opinions on this whether it be good or bad. My Paper is written in APA format. Ending Poverty One Meal at a Time After reading the article “On the Edge of Poverty” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg[->0], it’s realized that it was written from a point of view that shows the many down falls of a situation where a SNAP card is needed yet doesn’t point much at improving it. In many ways it supports the food stamp system, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as it is currently laid out. Stolberg starts off by phrasing Dustin Rigsby from Tennessee. She goes on to lay out that he is a...
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...was certain that the statue was sold by a dealer. This is how the book Blink is introduced saying that your first thought or intuition is most likely to be right. yet it may not always happen this way because there are certain rules to follow to make your decisions more accurate. Gladwell then introduces the theory of thin slices. This has to do with your unconscious mind and how it can be highly accurate in many cases with a very short amount of time. The author gives the example of the couple and marriage as they conducted an experiment having to do...
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...a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks. People who are depressed often feel like there is no way out and that is why depression can often lead to suicide. Some people may mistake sadness and depression for the same thing because they do have similarities. Sadness is often how depression starts out. Sadness can also be associated with grief. Grief is the response to a loss of someone and is associated with sadness. More people should look at sadness and grief as the same instead of sadness and depression. To know if you have depression, a diagnostic needs to be made by pointing out symptoms. Dr. Kramer believes that there are nine symptoms; if you have five out of those nine then you are depressed. The symptoms include: depressed mood, hard time having fun, no energy, can’t sleep, eating a lot, no desire for physical activity, feeling worthless, can’t concentrate, suicidal thoughts (Valiunas). All of those may seem like signs of just being sad, but as symptoms of depression, they are prolonged much longer. The physical characteristics of depression are what really set it apart from sadness. People who are depressed usually have a significant amount a weight loss; about 5% of their body weight is lost. A change in someone’s appetite is very important to notice because it can help spot depression early. When you’re sad...
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...George knows about this and is frightened about what Lennie does throughout the day, making sure he’s not causing any trouble, or who Lennie speaks to. Considering what Candy and George were going through, before they decided to mercy kill their best friends, it must have hurt them more than it hurt the dog and Lennie. In the book, Candy’s dog...
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...a forest in Thailand during the Song Khran, which is the Thai New Year holiday and it takes place in April. The story is about an English family of three: Alex, the father, Eileen, the mother and Suzanne, the daughter. Alex and his wife Eileen had travelled to Thailand to visit their daughter Suzanne, who is an English teacher. They went inside a forest to look for a market, but the market was no longer there when they got there, so they decided to go back, but instead they got lost. Alex and Eileen were both afraid, especially when four Thai men showed up in the forest, but their daughter Suzanne were just calm and mature. She took care of her parents and talked to the natives they met in the forest, trying to get her and her parents a ride back to the city. There is definitely something about role reversal here, which Catherine Merriman also says. “There had been a role reversal here. Suzanne, their brace twenty-one-year old daughter transformed [...] to a competent, patient encouraging parent. He (red. Alex) and Eileen her anxious, fractious dependent charges.”[1] Alex is the only man in the family (at least that we know of). When a man is alone with his wife and daughter, of course he feels like he needs to protect them from every possible danger. That is also why Alex wants to seem tough on the outside, not showing that he is afraid, even though he on the inside is almost as afraid as his wife is. “Her (red. Eileen) constantly-expressed anxiety kept his own fear suppressed...
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...Rebuilding the Welfare System Tyeisha Atkinson SOC320: Public Policy & Social Services Instructor: Ingrid Sanders November 13, 2013 Rebuilding the Welfare System Welfare is a very controversial topic that has divided this nation since the start of it. Welfare is an institution supported by the government to help those who lack in many different areas of their lives. “The largest increase in the share of the US population on welfare in the past 35 years occurred between 1960 and 1970.” (Deavers, & Hattiangadi, 1998). Welfare aims to help people and prevent poverty from increasing by enduring access to resources and reduce social suffering. Welfare programs include but are not limited to health care, education, SSI, housing, unemployment, food stamps and child care assistance. While this program is a great help to those who receive assistance the misuse and abuse of some obtaining benefits as well as a weakened government system has caused the welfare system to collapse. In earlier years, more Americans were working to provide for their families. Up to 1870, more than half of the Nation’s adult workers were farmers but as the economy grew so did jobs. Development reshaped the workforce. As life happened, people began to need assistance in different areas. The States and the Federal Government realized that the only way to make sure that people would not lose all that they had worked hard for over the years was to engage in insurance programs. In the US, social...
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...treacherous car ride home we look forward to sleeping in our own room in our own soft beds. Within the first few days of being home all of my friends know what goes on while I am on vacation, and usually it is detailed nicely starting off at the beginning. For some reason the car ride up is always long, longer than I ever remember. I listen to my iPod because I don’t like what my dad plays. Heaping piles of glistening snow and some cars pass as we drive, this doesn’t interest me so I sleep. When we get to the hotel my dad has to go get the keys. We do not stay in the main hotel, they also own cabins and that is where we stay. By the time we get to our cabin I cannot wait to get out and stretch. We unload the car and decide who is sharing what room. After we are completely done unloading, snowboarding gear and all, we go to the tiny grocery store on the main street. Finally, after one last time unloading the car we get to hit the hay. I do not mind sharing a room with my sister, we used to when we were little so it brings back memories. It is almost comfortable to have her there with me. She can really get under my skin...
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