Insights from BLINK
I've been reading this book by Malcolm Gladwell. And it's really making me think..
Well the subtitle is: "The power of thinking without thinking". So, hmm.
I'm in page 141 right now and regarding Paul Van Riper's and Reilly's life he share two important lessons: (1) Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive. (2) In good decision making, frugality matters.
He further says that John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Lee Goldman's research proves that in picking up these sorts of patterns, less is more. Overloading the decision makers with information, he proves, makes picking up that signature harder, not easier. To be a successful decision maker, we have to edit.
My take away initially from this is not related to decision making immediately. My first thought was how preachers should make things easier not complicated. Somehow seminarians and doctors tend to revel in their ability to make the simple complicated. And somehow that's the temptation. To mesmerize people with our knowledge. But the truth is, if we are to have an impact on their lives and not just titillate them, we need to communicate as simply as possible. So then, it makes applying the principles much easier.
So if I can preach something so profoundly simple, then maybe chances are people will be able to apply it to their lives more succesfully.
Well the subtitle is: "The power of thinking without thinking". So, hmm.
I'm in page 141 right now and regarding Paul Van Riper's and Reilly's life he share two important lessons: (1) Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive. (2) In good decision making, frugality matters.
He further says that John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Lee Goldman's research proves that in picking up these sorts of patterns, less is more. Overloading the decision makers with information, he proves, makes picking up that signature harder, not easier. To be a successful decision maker, we have to edit.
My take away initially from this is not related to decision making immediately. My first thought was how preachers should make things easier not complicated. Somehow seminarians and doctors tend to revel in their ability to make the simple complicated. And somehow that's the temptation. To mesmerize people with our knowledge. But the truth is, if we are to have an impact on their lives and not just titillate them, we need to communicate as simply as possible. So then, it makes applying the principles much easier.
So if I can preach something so profoundly simple, then maybe chances are people will be able to apply it to their lives more succesfully.
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