Wise Bites: March 26, 2021
Happy Friday,
Congratulations, you have completed another work week! Hopefully, you have finished it as a better version of yourself than when you started it on Monday. Now you can ride that wave into the weekend.
Take a moment to consume an illuminating review of a segment from a book, a few quotes that will capture your attention, and a thought-provoking find from the internet - small bites of wisdom. Here is the Wise Bites memo for your consideration this week.
Book Segment
This week, I want to share a book segment review from Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell. Gladwell seamlessly weaves scientific research findings from diverse fields into an anecdotal style that prompts readers to see ordinary things in new ways. In this work, Gladwell introduces the field of rapid cognition to help us better understand what lies behind our ability to make quick decisions. The three major concepts that I learned about were:
The benefit of quick decisions - decisions made quickly can be every bit as good as those made cautiously and deliberately.
Instinct Management - you need to know when to trust your instincts and when to be wary of them.
Snap Judgment Control - you can refine the efficiency of your judgment through a process called “thin slicing”, which is the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on narrow slices of experience.
Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. -Zig Ziglar
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. -Mark Twain
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