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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
And Malcolm Gladwell wept.
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Have you read Blink? At first, I thought, “This is brilliant.” But after many hours of listening (had it on cd for long car ride), I began to realize all he’s saying is that our first impressions are usually right.
But he does have one really cool point. Most of us can surmise the proper strategic response in a case within about 3 or 4 minutes. Sometimes, you just know which way the judge is going to go. But you can’t explain why to some douchebag partner who demands you list all the myriad bases your brain processed nearly instantaneously to reach the conclusion it did. So you fumble and feel foolish for being right but not being able to explain why to some asshole who thinks no solution can be achieved without some rigorous application of formula, the steps of which can be explained in detail. I like Gladwell’s conclusion that when such simpletons demand an explanation for the reason for your strategy decision, you should say “Isn’t it obvious?”
