Jonah’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2019)

Jonah’s comments from the diazkoolkidzz group.

"This is why it was so hard for the Getty, at least at the beginning, to accept the opinion of people like Hoving and Harrison and Zeri: it was a lot easier to listen to the scientists and lawyers, because the scientists and the lawyers could provide pages and pages of documentation supporting their conclusions. I think that is a mistake, and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why you know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way." (Blink page 52). We struggle to accept the information that lacks an explanation, we lose our mind trying to figure out why we just have a natural knowing of something when we need to accept that we won't always be self-aware to those things
2. It mainly relates to self-awareness and through that it relates to the other domains. It shows that when you find out what to look for in how a person acts and behaves in front and not in front of you, you can manage your relationships and be socially aware of the world around you. It also explains that you won't always be consciously aware that you know things and you will have to manage and be okay that you won't know.
3. Those that truly enjoy setting up a scene and understanding what goes on in your subconscious then you will truly enjoy this book. He writes several paragraphs building up the what goes on and then digs in to how it applies to you.
4. I have learned that I need to be okay with not being always self-aware about why I have a feeling why I know something (that has driven my mind on all sorts of crazy paths). Secondly that in a bad and good relationship, there is a common pattern between all relationships that whether it is good or bad, that you can have a positive or negative mindset toward it which causes why it is good or bad. Finally that you can learn twice as much of a person by observing there room than talking to them face to face.

a. I like my book a lot, it really makes you look at what you thought was random and understand that there is a thought behind the madness.
b. " Because when he first laid eyes on it, he said, he felt a wave of 'intuitive repulsion.'"On page 6 there was a part that was talking about the fake kouros how one of the people that was trying to figure out whether or not it was fake. It says he felt a "...wave of 'intuitive repulsion'..." I could relate to that because of how whenever something feels off I have a repulsion towards it.
c. How he didn't check with these people before hand, in the introduction the Gettiy had so many people check if the kouros was real beforehand and they didn't find out if it was fake until after.
d. "He took one look at the kouros and blanched. 'Anyone who has ever seen a sculpture coming out of the ground,' he said to her, 'could tell that that thing has never been in the ground.'" He is self aware that he has spent time out in the field pulling things out of the ground and knows that if you have spent time like he has could tell you it was fake.

My goal is to understand when to trust my immediate thoughts and when can those immediate decisions can fail at times. To understand why your first thoughts can be just as useful of hard thoughts.