..."In the first two seconds of looking –in a single glance – they were able to understand more about the essence of the statue than the team at the Getty was able to understand after fourteen months . . . Blink is a book about those first two seconds." Gladwell begins his introduction with the story of a kouros – an ancient Greek sculpture of a young naked male – that was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983. Kouroi are very rare. As a result this particular kouros was being sold for $10 million. Because of the hefty price tag, the Getty Museum was very careful when testing to see if the kouros was a forgery. However, after 14 months of analysis, the Getty determined that the kouros was in fact real, and bought the statue. Many scholars did not agree that the kouros was real. To them, something about the statue didn’t look right. When Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, looked at the statue the first word that came to his mind was “fresh”. When Angelos Delivorrias, director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, first laid eyes upon the statue he felt a wave of immediate disgust. For a long time the validity of the kouros was hotly debated. Finally, the Getty’s case began to fall apart. As it turned out, a lot of the documents used to prove the statue’s authenticity were forged. Also, as experts began to examine the statue in great detail, they came to the realization that it used a hodgepodge of styles from many different places...
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...gentle tap on the forehead evoked a reflex reponse from the orbicularis oculi muscles: the BR (as quoted by Ellrich, 2000) (23).The blink reflex (BR) is a protective, physiological trigemino-facial brainstem reflex aiming toat facilitate eyelid closure as a response to a potentially harmful and threatening stimulus. It consists of bilateral eyelid closure in response to a stimulus applied in the area innervated by the trigeminal nerve or directly on a branch of the trigeminal nerve. In routine clinical practice the BR can be elicited when the skin innervated by the supraorbital nerve is stimulated and a compound muscle action potential from the surface of the orbicularis oculi muscle is...
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...Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a book written by Malcolm Gladwell. This book introduces the concept of “thin slicing”. The concept refers to how in a split second or blink of an eye people can make an unconscious and accurate assessment of someone. Using the concept of thin slicing we can determine what is really important within the first few seconds when meeting someone. Malcolm Gladwell explained that first impressions or spontaneous decisions can be just as important as decisions that are made carefully and planned out. According to Gladwell, people make better decisions with quick judgments than they do with a lot of analysis. Gladwell believes that the power of thin slicing is not just something certain gifted people can do, it is something that everyone has the ability do. Gladwell also explains that our first decisions or first impressions can be easily corrupted by our likes, dislikes, prejudices, and stereotypes. We are thin slicing all the time according to Gladwell. Throughout the book Gladwell gives us many examples and experiments that support his concept of “thin Slicing”. Some of these examples include; predicting divorce, speed dating, gambling, malpractice suits, movies, military war games, and music. One of the important things that I have learned from reading this book is how important the process of decision making can be as a leader in business. As a business leader making...
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...ISU Critical Essay – Short Essay Option Our second mind is not as simple as it seems. Blink is a behavioral economics book written in 2005 by British-Canadian Journalist Malcolm Gladwell, focusing on our ability to ‘’Thin Slice’’. He explains through this ability we are able to determine what is truly important from a narrow experience, suggesting our spontaneous decisions are often better than the ones we consider. Using several engaging examples, he warns however that this ability of ours is challenged by personal likes, dislikes and overload of information, and is in our best interest to train our first impression to understand this reality through experience. The lack of scientific research in Blink also suggests that it is anecdotal, but Gladwell accepts this reality himself and thoroughly explains every point he makes in regards to this single flaw. Drawing scenarios that practice this rapid cognition from science, advertising, medicine and many others, he is also able to directly engage the reader’s subconscious by random screening and thought provocation. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory brings awareness to the power of our unconscious decision-making and proposes various strategies that offer a solution to its fallacy, maintaining his veracity in the research presented despite the lack of scientific method. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory brings awareness to the power of our unconscious decision-making. Decisions made quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously...
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...Blihttp://www.banglalinkgsm.com/docs.php?id=63 human resource the real tigers behind the stripes! we, at banglalink, believe that our teamwork is our greatest asset. useful contributions made by each individual bring us that much closer to our goals. the banglalink family is made up of a group of passionate individuals, uniquely qualified from diverse disciplines but working towards our vision. banglalink ensures for the tigers/tigress: * a friendly, professional and mutually supportive environment that encourages our people to develop their potentials to an optimal level. * a true quality of professionalism that can be found in all world-class multinational companies. * team oriented professionals, who contribute to the greater whole of the organization through their participation in decision making situations. * a system which recognizes and rewards groups as well as individuals for their efforts and contributions to the company. Review: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Banglalink-Reviews-E534901.htm “So far so good” Current Anonymous Employee – Reviewed last week Pros – security, satisfaction and the culture facilitates to learn Cons – friends and family would want undue favors http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Banglalink-EI_IE534901.11,21.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Banglalink-Reviews-E534901.htm# “Nice enveronment to work in banglalink.” Current Human Resources Administration Executive in Dhaka (Bangladesh) – Reviewed...
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...to go out for dinner. We decided to go to outback steak house. When we arrived there it was awfully crowded. We had a forty-five minute wait. While waiting in line I start to observe this Caucasian female. I chose her because she seemed to be very interested. For one she had bright pink hair and tattoos all over. There wasn’t a clear skin spot anywhere. While standing in line for forty-five minutes I start to observe her blinking her eyes. The reason my attention was focused on her was because she didn’t have just an ordinary blink. It appeared to be excessive blinking. Although, blinking is involuntary; which is known as a respondent behavior it’s also an automatic reflex (Lee, Axelrod, pg. 2). “Blinking is an automatic reflex that protects the eyes from dryness, bright light, and any other objects coming towards it”. Blinking regulates tears, in which they nourish and cleanse the surface of the eye” (www.aapos.org). ` The lady appeared to blink her eyes thirty times within one minute. Within the time frame of me observing her she had blinked one hundred and fifty times within five minutes. The blinking rate is 2 times per minute when you are born. By the time you reach adolescence it should have increased to fourteen to seventeen times per minute throughout a lifetime (www.aapos.org). Just looking at her I knew something wasn’t right with her eyes, and it wasn’t just one eye it was both. This is what made her blinking seem excessive to me. Excessive blinking is blinking...
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...BLINK BOOKING Introduction Blink Booking Limited operates a mobile reservation platform for booking hotels in global area. It serves hotels and customers. It partners with premium hotels, then gets them to compete to offer the best price for a same-day stay. In 2012, Blink has successfully launched in the UK and seven European countries, and has attracted $2.5m from prominent US and European angels and venture capitalists.It has also attracted the participation of over 500 of Europe’s best hotels Blink Booking was a new business with its sights set on revolutionising how people book and pay for their accommodation which is co-founded by Rebeca Minguela and Miguel Ortega. They saw a unique opportunity to bring a mobile-centric service to the London hotel booking market It was a strategic move for the company as it hopes to benefit from the estimated 450,000 people due to stay in London over the summer months. In the UK, the app currently serves London, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Cardiff. There are currently more than 700 hotels in 39 cities across the world to choose from including London, Marbella, Paris and Rome, to name a few. As of September 9, 2013, Blink Booking Limited operates as a subsidiary of Groupon Getaway. Business Blink Booking offers same-day hotel bookings straight from your mobile. Its offer is simple: every day at 11am, Blink selects the four best hotels (based on a combination of price and location) in each city and those hotels go live to...
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...OUTLIER’S REACTION PAPER The book „Outliers‟ is basically are success stories wherein Malcolm Gladwell, a renowned writer, gives practical explanations of how extraordinary people gain success. The stories situated in the book always involve different aspects of success such as the environment, patience and hard work, coincidences and other things happening around. Basically, the ideas give „common-sense‟ answer to the question. These people have succeeded because of the things that surrounds them and not just only by themselves. As stated “It makes a difference where and when we grew up”, this clearly explains that a person don‟t achieve success not only by himself but it matters on the situations and opportunities that lies around him. Gladwell investigates place, time and culture of these success stories in order to come up with practical explanations behind it. This also includes the relevant events that happened in certain period of time where these people are part and been to these events. So in other words, these people have been to certain event in their lives that made them succeed. Gladwell thought of these idea to see the logic about being successful or not, in this case is by asking where these people came from. One way Gladwell explains it is by determining the important events in certain period of time which are based on patterns of birthdates of a group of people such as the Canadian hockey team, Czechoslovakian National Junior Soccer team and the people behind...
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...Liliana Tenorio Sherry AP Psychology - 3 27 August 2015 Book Review: Outliers Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers explores the societal forces that give opportunity to individuals willing to put in the effort to become successful. Through the events and experiments he has researched, Gladwell has come to the conclusion that to become a successful person you must be given a specific and miraculous string of opportunities that pave the way for you, insisting that there is no such creature as a “self-made man”. He argues that they “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” In scientific terms an outlier is something that, despite all circumstances, stands out among the other data. In Gladwell’s terms, it is a person who, unlike everyone else, is given the correct circumstances and opportunities to rise above and utilize certain benefits like how and where they were raised, their location and resources around them, and even the month they were born in. He claims that these and more are all factors that play into success only if the true element, opportunity, is seized. Part One of Outliers explores something Gladwell researched called “The Matthew Effect” which clarifies ‘timing’ as a facet of opportunity. He shows a spreadsheet of the names and birthdays of the highest ranked Canadian hockey players and points out that the majority...
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...Through multiple cases, Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” challenges the theories that success is self-made. He discovers hidden advantages and opportunities that allowed for people to become successful. He defines an outlier as “a person who doesn't fit into our normal understanding of achievement”, and attempts to convince the reader these outliers are beneficiaries or extraordinary opportunity and special circumstances. Part one of “Outliers” is centered around “The Matthew Effect”, stemming from the Bible, as in Matthew, one of the disciples just happened to be at the right place, right time, when Jesus picked him to become a disciple. The statistical advantage of time is looked at extensively in chapter one. After attending a Canadian professional hockey game, Gladwell took notice at the amount of birthdays that fell in the January, February, and March months, as compared to the later months closer to December. Gladwell concluded, that kids born in months closer to January 1st, held a compounded advantage over the kids that were born closer to the end of the year. These kids were naturally older, therefore usually bigger, which meant they were picked first for teams, and hence got better coaching. He noted that this occurred in most professional sports. In chapter two, Gladwell admits that just because you're born in the earlier months, you're not necessarily going to be a professional athlete. He adds to his original claim that 10,000 hours of practice is needed before you...
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... In the book “Outliers: The Story of Success”, by Malcolm Gladwell, he reviews the lives of those people who have accomplished a lot and have been successful. Gladwell begins his book with the definition word "outliers”. According to Gladwell, outliers makes some people remarkably more successful than the other people. He thinks that these outliers are usually supposed to have talent and intelligence compared to an average and normal person. Gladwell shows these things by searching and looking at the background of some famous and remarkable outliers. Gladwell also takes an opposite view about how people achieve and manage high points of success. He states that definitely skills, abilities, knowledge and a lot of hard work are needed, and that success is also influenced by anyone. It means that people should look afar individual’s capability, excellence, worth, and value. In the first chapter, “The Matthew Effect”, Gladwell starts the chapter by describing the Canadian hockey player’s rise to the top of the sport in Canada. The young boy is discovered by a talent scout that helped him to rise to the top of hockey meritocracy in Canada. The young boy’s individual merit is the reason for his success. He succeeded because he performed well basing on his own superior ability. According in this chapter, “Success in hockey is based on individual merit- and both of those words are important” (Gladwell 17). It is true because the young boy wouldn’t be successful if he...
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...Compare/Contrast Essay: Malcolm Gladwell - “The 10,000 Hour Rule” Have you ever thought about what makes someone better than you? Is it innate talent, or is it thousands of hours of practice. Malcolm Gladwell argues that know one is just born innately gifted and through the years becomes better than everyone without practice, a lot of it. I agree with Gladwell on the point that “Achievement is talent plus preparation” (60). This is the point of view adopted by Malcolm Gladwell in his essay “The 10,000 Hour Rule” from Outliers: The Story of Success, published in 2008. However, Gladwell and I differ on his point of view about when you need to have reached your 10,000 hours. One area where Gladwell and I agree is that “Achievement is talent...
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... Success is a result that we all always wonder how rock stars, world class athletes, or billionaires obtain it. But the question here is: How are these people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others get there? What they have is something that psychologist like Robert Steinberg call practical intelligence. This type of intelligence is about knowing how to do something without having to provide an elaboration for it. It is addressed in the book “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2, Chapter 4” by the Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell that success and achievement are accomplished through this sort of intelligence. One can argue that, based on the text, Gladwell has an intriguing and conceivable claim; however, he could improve some miniscule details on his support by providing more evidence. One claim that Gladwell addresses is that logical or analytical intelligence does not necessarily lead to professional achievement. One can clearly see this through Chris Langan’s experience as an example. Langan through his academic record and his two scholarship offers show him to be rationally brilliant in the scholastic sense. However, that was not sufficient for him to succeed his goal to pursue his intellectual curiosity by obtaining a college degree. On his book, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2, Gladwell states, “‘Then [Chris] lost that scholarship … [His] mother was supposed to fill out a parents’ financial statement for the renewal of that scholarship. She neglected...
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...The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell provides a thought-provoking spin on stories of success. Gladwell looks deeper into each person’s or group’s rise to fame. He shows that success does not occur without some sort of “help.” In other words, successful people are put in a superior situation. One of Gladwell’s many intriguing points is that ten-thousand hours of practice at something will make you world class in that particular area. This can be one area of “help” that you need to succeed. Not just anyone can practice for ten-thousand hours at something, but if you have the right opportunity- Gladwell points out- you will be able to strive. A second attribute to success that Gladwell makes is birth dates. Being the correct age to pursue what...
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... 1. In Chapter 2 Gladwell claims that success is equal to one’s talents and the preparations. But the effect of talent is quite less than the preparation. With the most important thing in success is preparation. Our question is how long will this period take. Our answer leads us to 10,000 hours. The world’s professional athletes, scholars, composers are the proof of this 10,000 hours theory. Examples are as follows, hockey player that born early, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, The Beatles etc. Gladwell believes that those people are the ones who used the opportunities that has given to them. In the third chapter, Gladwell says that, IQ works only up to a point. If someone has an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage. Let’s take, for example, Jacob Barnett and autistic fourteen-year-old from Indiana. His IQ rounds out about 170 and Einstein's IQ is 150 but that does not mean that Jacob Barnett is smarter than Einstein even though he is working on his own theory of relativity. For Gladwell, the most important thing for IQ point is its achievement of having enough IQ points, some other critical things are the qualities me and you have, such as artistry, resourcefulness and lateral thinking. Conclusion, of the chapter means success is not a thing that we obtain by ourselves. There must be an opportunity and other qualifications to achieve success in life. 2. In chapter 2 Gladwell’s evidence propels us...
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