Blink, Malcom Gladwell
Fascinating book about the unconscious mind. The ability of the unconscious mind to process all that is going on around us and give us clues. All the little facial expressions and personality nuances tell so much. For example “contempt” in a relationship is perhaps the greatest of posins. It discusses how one can leverage the “thin slicing” and at the same time, how your prejudices can hamper your minds ability to give you an accurate picture. Another association with this ability with “mind reading” and then showing how under highly stressful conditions the “thin slicing” mechanism shuts down. Practice, etc allows you to not have this happen in stressful circumstance. The last example is how women have entered into orchestra by auditioning behind screens because people prejudices were not allowing them to take the music for what it was.
Simply amazing insights into how the human mind works. Certainly worth more examination of these thin sliced signals that show what a person is thinking and feeling. It offers a better way to connect with people, and also a better way of judging peoples intentions.
