Gladwell’s Blink explains what happens when you listen to your gut feeling, why these snap judgments are often much more efficient than conscious deliberating, and how to avoid your intuition leading you to wrong assumptions. The book can help you understand how your own intuition works, and when it’s best to trust it or keep analyzing. In stressful situations, your ability to read other people’s facial expressions rapidly declines. This inability to read nonverbal cues is very common among autistic people. When you find yourself in a stressful situation, this can render you temporarily autistic, and you develop a sort of tunnel vision.
This will lead your gut to make the wrong call oftentimes, so it should be prevented whenever possible. You might expect every Asian to be good at math, Fortune 500 CEOs as tall, and white men to be beautiful. But if you’re an agent for a record label, that’s a problem. You’re supposed to find the best singers, not models. Try to think of a few screens and filters you could use to make sure you only get relevant information.
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