Arturo Garcia Choice Topic 4

.  Blink is essentially about gut reactions and first impressions.   Gut reactions are encouraged in this book and are supposed to be remarkably accurate. The book begins with a story that illustrates the accuracy of gut reactions; this story is about a Greek statue that turned out to be a forgery.  At first the statue was believed to be an original, there is sufficient evidence to prove that it was not a fake, but many of the experts that saw the statue knew it was a fake.  They had no evidence to support their accusations; they just had a gut feeling. You don’t need to read to far into the book to know exactly what it is about; in the first chapter the author provides an outline of the book.

I see truth in some of the things that are stated in this book, and have been in situations where I needed to make split second decisions.  There were times that thinking about the situation would take too long, therefore my subconscious mind would take over and the decisions that were made were actually very good ones.   When I am sailing, in a regatta, and I have to round a mark I have to make very quick decision.  I really do not have time to think about it.  This is a situation where my instincts have to come into play.   I have to use my gut reaction.