[MD] Blink

[Ron Kulp]

 This concept is the basis of chinese martial arts..it can be
manipulated..the wisdom lies in when to use it.

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Here is a little something for everyone interested in the front edge of
experience.

I am a big fan of audiobooks and my selection for the week has been
Malcom Gladwell's Blink. Here is what Gladwell says about his book:

"It's a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that
happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time,
or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few
sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a
series of conclusions.
Well, "Blink" is a book about those two seconds, because I think those
instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really
important and, occasionally, really good."

This is a book about the front edge of experience. It shows how
frequently and commonly Dynamic Quality plays a role in our everyday
lives. He never mentions Pirsig and there is no indication of MoQ
influence but never-the-less that's what this book is about. It shows
that rather than being mystical or mysterious DQ is just what we do. His
examples range from art historian's judgments of a fraudulent Greek
statue to a military commander in a $250 million war game who beat the
combined US forces in the Middle East so badly they forced a do over and
restricted to tactics he could use.

Blink is about the importance of preintellectual thinking and how many
times our snap judgments based on it are equal to or better than
rationally conceived and carefully thought out plans. My only regret
about this book is that I didn't pick it up sooner. I check off as
essential reading to anyone interested in the MoQ.


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