Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
This is a fantastic piece that will convince you to speed up your decision-making process, no matter how important the decision seems to be.
Gladwell describes how most of our decisions are based on our gut feeling and what happens when we listen to our intuition instead of over-thinking and creating endless pro-contra lists.
“If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.”
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