BLINK

Malcolm Gladwell. Have you read his work? Blink and his publication called The Tipping Point. So what are the moments when you make those critical decisions..those first couple of seconds? How is one making those judgements? I don't think it is intuition either but I do think that the decision is intuitive. It's "knowingness". Have you had those experiences and then found out that that first response you had actually proved itself to be correct. I have too! I have also experienced the flip side of that too where my first impression was wrong.

I heard Malcolm Gladwell speak at a conference in San Diego in 2006. Did not use even one note and it was spell binding. My first impression was "I want to read those books". My second impression was "I want to practice my delivery so I can use these storytelling techniques". I'm fascinated by storytelling.

Cleo Magnuson
Instructional Designer
NCSU-DELTA