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Most of us, under pressure, get too aroused, and past a certain point, our bodies begin shutting down so many sources of information that we start to become useless.
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Our powers of thin-slicing and snap judgments are extraordinary. But even the giant computer in our unconscious needs a moment to do its work.
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Our unconscious thinking is, in one critical respect, no different from our conscious thinking: in both; we are able to develop our rapid decision making with training and experience.
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Mind reading… is an ability that improves with practice.
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This is the gift of training and experience – the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.
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Every moment – every blink – is composed of a series of discrete moving parts, and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction.
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Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.
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…if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition.
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