Blink

This book is absolutely fabulous in every sense of the word. He has taken a topic that most people would turn their nose up at because it's 'sciency' and 'nerdy' and made it incredible. You can't put it down. When you read this book, none of the research is too complex for the reader to understand. This ability to communicate such important scientific information in an enticing, comprehensible manner is so so so important.
I completely agree with Becca’s response to this book, relating it to romanticism and Emmerson. I think what the author is ultimately trying to tell us is that we need to be ‘awake’ and do our ‘work’. We need to trust our instincts more often than think things through thoroughly in order to make better decisions. Which is contrary to what we’ve been taught by society for most of our lives, especially during childhood. It’s in the nature of children to act impulsively and instinctually, while the mother or father constantly reminds the child to slow down and think. We are trained from a very early age that it’s not only important to make good decisions, but that we must think slowly and deliberately in order to make them.  
This is going to bother me until I figure out who said this, but this book me reminds me of a quote that goes somewhere along the lines of “Trust your instinct, not your mind. For your mind is only as old as you are but instinct is thousands of years old.” I feel as though this saying and Blink go hand in hand together. We learn by correcting our past mistakes. We think of our elders as wiser because they have been around longer to make more mistakes and learn from them. Instincts has had thousands of years to evolve and improve in order for the human race to survive, thus it is is smarter than we consciously are.
The prejudice quizzes were also extraordinarily enlightening. Even though people can complete all the quizzes properly relatively quickly, those few fractions of a second in which we slow down once we have to associate words that don’t follow society’s general stereotypes reveal that we are racist/sexist to some degree. Which is something a lot of us do not want to come to terms with.