Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seems to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye that are not as simple as they seem. The author describes the main subject of his book as thin slicing. Thin Slicing is our ability to use limited information from a very narrow period of experience to come to a conclusion. This idea suggests that spontaneous decisions are often as good as or even better than carefully planned and considered ones. The author draws from a wide range of examples from science, marketing, gambling, dating, sports, military, movies, and music. The author also uses many examples of regular people's experiences with "thin-slicing," including our ability to mind-read, which is how we can get to know a person's emotions just by looking at his or her face. The author explains how an expert's ability to "thin slice" can be corrupted by their likes and dislikes, prejudices, and stereotypes. We become more …show more content…
Thin slicing is a process by which you take a segment of a situation and make an overall judgment about it. An example that the author contains in the book is a man named John Gottman. John Gottman can view a 3-minute clip of a couple arguing and determine whether or not that relationship will last 15 years more (with accuracy). The Author discussed the many elements that affect our judgment, our culture, our experience, and the data that is placed before us. So the very things that help us also hinder us. The author demonstrates the point by telling the story of an orchestra who decided to put up screens to audition their musicians, so they only heard the music rather than judge the contender by looks, attitude, the way they held the instrument etc. They found that this was how they eventually began to choose women into the orchestra by talent alone. They did this to prevent stereotyping by looks and to have a the audition be purely on