Blink - Entry 1

For my second book,  I have chosen to read Blink, a very interesting book written by Malcolm Gladwell. From what I have heard, this book is one that will be hard to put down. One of my fellow gifted friends, also currently reading a Malcolm Gladwell book, explained the premise of the book and I was instantly hooked. This book focused on psychology, a field I am very interested in. This book entails a series of studies and experiments done to monitor the unconscious thinking of the human. It goes through the mental process of one when making a decision, along with finding relationships between the oddest things. For example, my friend explained one of the experiments where the people being studied walked down a hall and read a few words. Then the speed at which they walked back down the hallway, thus creating a link between recent readings and movement. For me, this is a genre that is very unfamiliar to me, considering I have never really been interested by psychology until this year. I hope that this book will show me that there is so much more to psychology than what is on the surface.