Aly Singleton
Ms. Romano
AP English Lit and Lang

blink, Round Two

Hey there Ms. Romano! 

So I have finally finished the book and am so ready to get into this paper. I'm still unsure about what I want to write about, but I'm hoping to use this blog post as a way to organize my ideas. Hopefully I'll know by the end of this post. 

I have three broad ideas. Number one is to look farther into this idea of when you should use your "unconscious" side and when you should use your "conscious" side. I can try and do some research to draw that line and decide for myself where the decision should be made. I talked about this in my previous blog post. Gladwell does an awful job of narrowing down his advice. He basically ends the book saying that thinking with both mindsets is important and would have net benefit on the world. However, he never goes into depth about where to to use which. This was endlessly annoying me throughout the book and it would be nice to give myself the satisfaction of guidelines.

Number two. 

I can just look into more research about intuition and the unconscious/conscious parts of the brain. Looking into the repercussions of intuition sound like a very interesting road to take. I also really like Sarah's idea about researching how the brain developed throughout history and when the conscious part of the brain took over the animalistic one. I'm leaning toward this option.

Number three is still worth mentioning. Final idea, I could further research one of his abundant anecdotes. I have a few in mind that I'm intrigued by. The first is the hospital I mention in my first blog post. I would love to look into how the decision making process works in the health care system. How much of the process is laid out for them and how much is intuition? Second, Gladwell spends a lot of time in the back half of the book talking about autism and how people with autism process information differently. This would lend itself to some interesting realizations about how people without autism process information as well.

So I'm leaning towards #2... but we will see!
Adios for now,

Aly