10 lessons from the book Blink By Malcolm Gladwell

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

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