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Think! Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
By Jim Chow
Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye by Michael R. LeGault (Paperback - Oct 24, 2006)
This book makes the argument that good decisions are the result of careful analysis and not spur of the moment, seat of the pants, snap guessing. LeGault gives real world examples where great thinking occurred from a combination of experience and acquired knowledge. He talks about the danger of a mentality that prefers feelings and snap decisions versus thoughtfully derived considerations. In particular he points to the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback - April 3, 2007) as the antithesis of his beliefs. LeGault laments the decline of cognative abilities in America and perhaps Western society with lower attendance in the university technical faculties of engineering, physics, math and in effect - there is a thinking gap between the west and those societies that promote higher technical learning. He goes on to speculate the next round of technical achievements and breakthroughs will not come from the US. Where technological achievements come from will also bring patents and economic rewards. The West has fast food thinking. Mostly vacuous, having suspect form and little substance. He links it with the rise of popular media with short sound bites, lack of background material and large visually arresting graphics and video games and the decline of recreational reading and where there is reading in the mass media, the vocabulary is set at a middle grade school level. Americans are fed brain sucking television mush for hours on end and it is turning them into a nation of morons which makes them easy to manipulate and control. Why aren't Americans getting intellectually stimulating TV programming? One group, mainly television advertising executives, say Americans are getting exactly what they want. Another group, university pundits, would claim there is a deliberate campaign to dumb down the American public. Some say it is a conspiracy. Not all is lost. He points to the Greek classical thinkers and philosophers as an enlightened society. Worthy of emulating and resurrection. He does have a fix. Turn off the tube and crack open books. The trick is to make ideas sexier than the MTV generation of fast transitions, fades, the 30 second TV commercials or the now 15 second Internet ad. available everywhere especially amazon |
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That book should be required reading in schools! It is disheartening how many decisions are made on a whim.
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