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Why happiness is the ultimate goal
The importance of creating value
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"Thin-slicing refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience."
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We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have ab explanation for.
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We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it.
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Our unconscious is a powerful force, but it is fallible...it can be thrown off, distracted, and disabled.
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*for more detailed information about this, go to page 34 of the book BLINK
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So, when should we trust our instinct, and when should we be wary of them?
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The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.
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... decisions made very quickly can very bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
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The IAT was devised by Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarian Banaji, and Brian Nosek, and it is based on a seemingly obvious but nonetheless quite profound observation.
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This new notion of adaptive unconsciousness is thought of instead, as a kind of giant computer that quickly and quietly processes a lot of the data we need in order to keep functioning as human beings.
The power of adaptive unconsciousness, high-level sophisticated thinking to the u...
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We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instructions.
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Contempt is closely related to disgust, and what disgust and contempt are about is completely rejecting and excluding from the community.
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This book is very complex for me. It is different. I highly recommend for you to read the whole book. There are so much stories and information served into bits for easier comprehension. You never know what you'll learn from BLINK.
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