Here’s fodder for our best piece of survival equipment – the ‘ol brain. Book targets broad audience, but has obvious emergency/disaster/survival applications.
Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell (currently on NY Times bestseller list). Found at my local library. Fairly quick to read – ~250 pages – filled with examples.
Dust jacket sums up premise, by saying, “…great decision makers aren’t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of “thin-slicing” – filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.” In other words, trusting gut instinct.
Paraphrasing the author’s stated goals: convince you [that] decisions made quickly can be as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately; [teach] when to trust instincts, and when to be wary of them; convince you that snap judgments and first impressions can be educated and controlled.
Thought it was overall a good book, though left some questions unanswered; but, got me thinking – always a good thing.
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"Things that have never happened before happen all the time." — Scott Sagan, The Limits of Safety