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peopletriggers — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:34:18 +0000

In reply to OneGirlRiot. Thank you very much for the nomination! I appreciate it!

By: OneGirlRiot

OneGirlRiot — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:17:21 +0000

I’m intrigued by Kahneman’s take on intuition. So it’s not instinct but memory…?

By the way, I’ve nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blog award. For some reason the link-back doesn’t work, so here’s a link for you to see the original post:
http://onegirlriot.com/2013/03/uncertainty-and-inspiration/

By: Matilda Aya

Matilda Aya — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:45:37 +0000

I realize that you’re thinking and writing from an academic perspective, but when I think of individuals acting on gut instinct or intuition, I think of people in situations in which they don’t have any expertise or experience. For example, babies putting things in their mouths or someone choosing lottery numbers according to what feels like winning numbers. An experienced guess or an a-ha moment after your mind has been working in the background just seems different to me. Completely different.

By: mrgmd

mrgmd — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:28:22 +0000

Good post. I would rather listen to human instinct rather than reasonable thinking

By: Ashana M

Ashana M — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:11:39 +0000

Thank you for highlighting a book that sounds terrifically interesting.

I prefer the term “non-conscious” processing for the type of thinking both Gladwell and Brooks are referring to, which I think is also what Gladwell used. Unconscious and subconscious become bogged down in Freudian ideas of repressed thoughts and feelings. Non-conscious thinking is not repressed or denied. It simply does not occur in the parts of our minds we think of as being conscious. There is an enormous difference.

There are distinct dangers of certain kinds of nonconscious biases: we tend to be overly biased towards information that supports our existing beliefs as well as vulnerable to being persuaded by graphic or visually compelling images and descriptions, for example. ideally, conscious and nonconscious thinking complement and correct the excesses of each other.

Just some thoughts.