1. He was a nonfiction writer whose books included, Think, The Tipping Point, and of course Blink. Outside of Blink, I don't a whole lot about the author.
2. The one book I have read was the required reading, Blink. I felt the book was interesting in the sense that it explored the idea of seeing the clear picture of a rather complex a subject of any kind.
3. What I expect from Blink based on the title is learning the ability of taking in information of an entity any kind in mere seconds, which is akin to idea of, “in a blink of an eye”.
4. In the context of Blink, I am expecting to find new ways to take in information, or thin-slice, from other day to day issue that most of us go through.
I felt the book brought up some interesting ideas on rapid cognition processing, and applying them to real life situations. I was especially struck by the marriage-divorce experiment, where examiners were studying facial gestures and verbal cues in order to find a correlation to whether the marriage will last or not. That to me shows that we as people instinctively acknowledge that our emotional responses are not something that can be fixed through rational thinking. I wished I could of learned more about the appliance of thin slicing on my regular day-to-day basis. I feel that this is a skill that can revolutionize how we perceive the world in a global sense.
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