October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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February 15Thin Decision Making
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of humankind; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson—Self-Reliance (1841)
Our unconscious mind is more powerful than we may acknowledge. This thing often referred to as gut instinct may indeed be our mind giving voice to what Emerson dubbed our “latent conviction”—our inner ability to know what is best for us.
Psychologists use the term “thin-slicing” to describe a person's ability to find patterns in events based only on “thin slices,” or narrow windows, of experience.
More recently, the term “adaptive unconscious” has been used to describe an effortless mental process that influences our judgment and decision making.
Malcolm Gladwell brought both terms into popular use in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
The way, the thought, the good is wholly strange and new—and it's only in you.
Trust it.
Challenge Question
- When was the last time you had a strong gut feeling about something?
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