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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell

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Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

After reading the introduction (The Statue That Didn’t Look Right), I realized that my visceral ability plays an important and significant role in my life that I was once unconscious about. I feel I am like Federico Zeri and Evelyn Harrison. Zeri is an Italian art historian who served on the Getty’s board of trustees. After taking a look at the kuros, he felt something about the kuros seemed wrong to him. Harrison had a hunch feeling after her first initial glance at the kuros. Just when the museum went in seek for scientists; I felt the need for that as well. Was the kuros fake? Like the members of the museum, I needed source of evidence and statistic to correct what I was thinking and adjust to the right idea. I would need some sort of analytical data to assure myself of what my initial reaction had told me.
In the end, it took a few second for Zeri and Harrison to determine the status of the kuros while it took the scientists a few months to find th...more

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