[b]Malcolm Gladwell
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?[/b]
Let’s make this applicable to, among others, Nietzsche’s Ubermen.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Anyone here been thinking instinctively of late?
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
Either that or reconfigure it into your own.
Emotion is contagious.
Let’s file this one under, “for better or for worse”. And, occasionally, then some.
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
Or your husband as the case may be. And, increasingly [of late], your partner.
The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
On the other hand, good for whom?