blink and blink

Reading a book with title blink.

I have not come to conclusion on how useful it is. Possibly one of the so-so book that is written in easy language that I just flow through.

Mostly it is discussing concious mind and sub-concious mind.
Why do we have to pay attention to sub-concious mind. how different is sub-concious mind. The sub-concious mind is thin-slicing. it is simple and can be sometime more accurate to follow.

In contrary, you can find some instance that you won't want to follow the instant mind. Is there any guildlines to follow. In life / dead situation. you follow instinct.. the back door feel. In most day-to-day life, what do you do.

It also try to show the existence of such powerful - " locked /hidden " mind that enable the decision in a wink of time - blink.

Examples given is a good set of compilation (variety of psycology tests) . It is at least the effort of the author to pull everything together

1 - The status of kouros - how thin-slice work - no reason is produced
2 - The theory of thin slices - e.g. gottman's couple test about their positive/negative atttitude. interview for candidates of a jobs - you just have to find the most essential info that has the biggest influence. thin-slicing is good at it. our instinct is good at it. our usual way of solving problem (objectively) with survey and empirical method may not always be the good/correct way. In the example of couple relationship -- if there is a contempt ..then the marriage won't be long.

3 - The locked door - tennis player double fault/ speed dating / two ropes in a room.. the concious mind can be a noise to the sub-conscious mind. how could you filter the noisy concious mind. there are people who conciously know the correct and wrong Yet unable to act on it.

4 - The warren harding error - thin slicing can be dark side. the choice of warren harding as president was a bad decision. It was based on impression. and strong assiocation of external look. We all associate. Example of implicit associate test is really freaking me out. very true. It measuers our level of subconcious / altitude. also CEOs are average taller.. car salesman error to filter potential customer .. bottom line is you have to find out that you have the weakness of certain sub-concious and overcome it. easy to say.
note: very interesting IAT test

5 - Paul van riper's big victory -
6 - Kenna's dilemma -
7 - Seven seconds in bronx -
8 - Listening with your eyes -