Mcgilchrist's Innsaei: The Power Of Intuition

When I think of mindfulness I contemplate of ones empathetic to interpret a situation. For two weeks every night before I went to bed, I wrote down three items I was grateful for. Some of the words were “Health”,” Family”,” Friends”,” Food”, and” Childhood”. This list goes on, what I grasped is whatever I did that day predisposed what I wrote down. On days I lifted I would appreciate my health, when I went away with my family I recognized how much I appreciated my family, when I was home for a day I realized how much I adored my bed. The new custom I obtained made me appreciate how indebted I am in my life to points I didn’t fathom before. This taught me to feel empathy for people who can’t say the same good things as me which gave me very good insight on to be grateful for the life I have.

Accredited journalist, Malcolm Gladwell, delves into the hidden truth behind the subconscious mind and explores the psychological process of intuitive thinking, both good and bad, in the novel Blink. Gladwell’s purpose is to exploit how the unconscious works and to expose the connection between your intuition and the real world which helps educate the reader on how to develop advanced decision making skills. He adopts an informative and passionate tone in order to establish credibility with his older audience and emphasize his dedication toward his works. Through the use of rhetorical questions and repetition, Gladwell demonstrates that a thin-slice of information can be used to deduce deeper comprehension.

The objective of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is to educate people on suppressing their natural willingness

From the beginning of mankind, one’s survival relied solely on instinct. A psychoanalytical lens can be used to analyze A&P, a short story by John Updike, lone, a piece of art by John William Godward, and “To My Best Friend - Short Film”. Through this lens, readers can draw the theme that all humans have basic instincts and urges that lie in the unconscious mind.

There are two types of ways to think in this world, one way is called intuitive & the other is called articulate. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book where we learn how we think without thinking, or rather about things that seem to just come to us without us having to do any thinking at all. A very powerful message that I spotted that was meant for the reader at the end of this book was that we should know when to trust our instincts and when to be cautious of them.

In The Invisible Gorilla, authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons demonstrate how our intuition can falsely lead us to fallacy. The ability to understand surroundings immediately without conscious reasoning permits misinterpretations, false judgements, and unclearness without us even realizing. Through experiments done in psychology, Chabris and Simons reveal much more about how we actually see our world compared to how we think we see it. As so many of us believe against, it is exceptionally true that we do not know how our minds work and why we behave the way we do. Our minds actually fool us and get us to believe misconceptions as being the truth. The Invisible Gorilla focuses on the six everyday “illusions” people undergo that affect

However, the reader learns, our brain sifts through the situation in front of us, throwing out all that is irrelevant and zeroes in on what really matters, and allows us to act on this through our “gut reaction.”

Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell in 2005. Blink presents the idea that we can all train our unconscious mind in order to make successful decision making in the blink of an eye by thin-slicing. However, Gladwell’s biggest mistake in Blink is that it presents a noticeable lack of argument development since throughout the book we can mostly observe a repetition of more-or-less interesting, but flimsy, insubstantial evidence that rather than teaching us the method of thin-slicing, it reminds of that accurate intuition can take years to familiarize oneself with,

Articles and news headlines used for safety and precaution would be more helpful then frightful ones. A great example would be from the Los Angeles Times “We’re not trying to suggest that the alert is an impending catastrophe. We’re just trying to use an abundance of caution. We care about the safety of the public”. To inform the reader of what is really going on in the world and what can be done to prevent future events from continuing or repeating themselves. As Samuel C. Spitale wrote in The Right to Bear Harm “It is often said by other nations that the U.S. can always be counted on to do what’s right, but only after we’ve exhausted every other option. Well, we’ve just about exhausted every other option, so maybe it’s finally time to do what’s right”. The media should really take his advice and turn fear into a beneficial

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, is a book that discusses the psychology behind the decisions made in life and gives readers an insight on how the subconscious mind plays a part in the choices humans make. The book has an agenda consisting of three main ideas it wishes to convey to the audience. It’s first task is to attempt to convince the reader that, “ decisions made quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately,” (Gladwell, 14). Gladwell then follows with two more concepts to introduce, including answering the question, “When should we trust of our instincts and when should we be wary of them?” and trying to, “ Convince (the reader) that our snap judgements and first impressions can be educated and controlled,” (Gladwell, 15). Best put by, “A Different and Better World”, Blink mainly covers, “the

We are told that everyday happenings are also in a box, and we can tackle them better with our psychological wisdom. We are motivated to have agency in these scenarios that occur in

Humans obtain the ability to quickly read facial expressions and generalize personality traits. This is commonly known as intuition; the results of unconscious thinking, allowing for the

Terre, Hazel Niña S. 2015-01125 FA 10 The BBC documentary, “The Human Mind,” tells us how information is being processed in the brain and how it affects our actions. The human brain is extremely complex and it is capable of doing more than we are even aware of. The documentary tells us about a man whose intuition warned him about the danger of continuing to head inside a burning building.

I was doing a reading for my creative thinking class a while back and I came across an interesting idea that the author put forth. According to him, Michael Michalko, when we are stuck, unable to find a solution for a problem, our unconscious already has the solution, it is just a matter of pulling it up from the depths of our minds. This is where intuition comes from. Intuition is our subconscious telling us what we already know is or will be true. This subconscious to me is built off of experience, information, and our animal nature.

Over the last 2 decades it has been understood that collaboration of different areas play a huge role understanding human behavior. In the other hand, being rational, according to the Oxford definition, is “being able to think sensibly or logically. Using reason and logic”. If emotions did not affect our rationality, how can we possibly have so much crime and at the same time, so much success from others? The same answer is applied to this part of the question; emotions alone do not affect our rationality. It is a complex system of interconnected networks including emotions, cognitions, physiology, psychology and more.