Blink by Dr.Ir. Budi Brahmantyo, M.Sc

Hearing the voice imitation – blink – it reminded comedian Kang Ibing at Radio Mara decades ago during a high school student. Students singles who do not have a weekly evening events, usually immediately play the radio waves to Radio Mara listened to the chatter Kang Ibing.

Sbling! That’s the real story of Kang Ibing rada-rada pornography – which is precisely models such account can not be denied – heavily favored. The story there is a wak Hajj fad enter “saktinya index” (which does not exist in the fingers; know yourself right? His name is also Rada pornography), into an empty bottle. When drawn quickly, there arose a voice sbling! Feeling excited with his behavior and because it is also a sound fun, wak Hajj done it many times … sbling … sbling … sbling …

No warning, no child spotted bengal fraudulent behavior wak pilgrimage. Wak Hajj panic is not playing. Understandably as a public figure with a degree of Hajj, such actions will indeed bring down its reputation in the public eye. Quickly she bribed the bengal child with money is pretty good, so that his behavior was not disseminated.

Bengal child’s basic, no ATM runs out, it become the arena of extortion so delicious. So every meeting wak Hajj, the child ornery enough to shout “sbling!” and hurriedly reached into his pocket wak Hajj for the child stunned silence. Thus, a secret between wak Hajj and the child about the incident sbling bengal remain closed for a long time.

Apparently there are other children who pay attention to the behavior of the child bengal wak pilgrimage. Superb true magic words sbling could make the pilgrimage wak spend and immediately gave the money to the child bengal, so he thought, ah, what’s wrong with trying.

Then the opportunity came when passed wak aka Haj near a pond fish pond. With the spirit of the child 45 soon meet wak Hajj, and shouted “Hajj wak … sbling!”

Wak Hajj sekejapan aghast. But rather than spend the next, he immediately grabbed the child and buried her body in a mud pond, “Sbling-sbling Messiah! You do not know his history mah!“

Blink *

Blink definitely different from the story above sbling Hajj. But it may be linked. If intuition wak Hajj works that his actions surely will someday be caught, blink, he will not do it. There is something wrong that should wak Hajj recognize a few seconds after that intention appears. That blink is not realized by wak pilgrimage.

A few years ago when he visited the Ancient Human Site Sangiran, someone approached while offering an object. At first glance it looks like a horn. People said that it was the skeleton of an ancient rhinoceros horn that has ever lived in Sangiran in antiquity.

As a geologist, I have always known that Sangiran has been renowned as the location of many vertebrate fossil discoveries, even early humans. When the horn fossil proffered, an instant gasp as well. Fun also has a collection of fossils from Sangiran rhino horn, so to my mind.

But a few seconds later sneaking feeling, or thought, or intuition, or instinct, or whatever, either in the brain or in the heart: ah, the time anyway horns? That blink. Two seconds were doubts if the objects offered is a fossil horn. But because they are attracted to collecting them, I finally bought also after a bargain price.

After the seller passed, finally guides who accompanied me told that the fossil was not fossilized horn, though shaped horns. The horn is also no doubt as fossil bones. But it was the skeleton fossil horn horns artificial bone fossil fauna of any (possibly buffalo) were then carved like a rhino horn. No wonder many fossils are also sold peanuts, complete with crab claws, and many other forms of flora and fauna, even – sorry – the form of the male sex! Absolutely outrageous!

Gladwell’s blink-first-fotoDua seconds doubts fossil horn that is according to former Washington Post journalist Malcolm Gladwell called blink. In his book “Blink * Ability Quick Thinking Without Thinking,” published by Scholastic in 2009 Moulds 8th, he begins his book with examples of cases in 1983 when they wanted to buy Getty Museum antique Greek kouros statue of the sixth century BC. Be aware of the forgery, the Getty Museum conducted a series of scientific tests with an electron microscope, electrone microprobe, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence, the experts are qualified. Long story short the conclusions of the scientific analysis shows that the original statue and the museum agreed to buy about 10 million US dollars. When exhibited, some antiquities experts assess it directly in the first two seconds of the feeling that there is something wrong with the kouros statue. The intuitive rejection brings further investigation. For months later proved that the statue is a fake.

I was lured to buy the book when there is an event discount of 70% of all books on the opening of a new bookstore “Home Book” on Jl. Supratman, Bandung, after reading the synopsis of the book on the back cover: Blink is a book the first two seconds that determine when we observe something – two seconds will give you understanding in the blink of an eye that is formed due to the options that appear on the computer “internal” we, aka the ability of our unconscious, through a snap judgment and thin slicing.

The book consists of Introduction (Sculptures Looks Less Pas), Chapter One (Theory Trailer Thin: How to Know a Little Can Mean Many), Chapter Two (Doors Locked: Secrets to Making Decisions in Instant), Chapter Three (Warren Harding Error: Why We liked Male Bodied High and Handsome), Chapter Four (Great victory Paul Van Riper: Creating structures for Spontaneity), Chapter Five (Dilemma Kenna: Market Research Not Always Reflect desire Market), Chapter Six (Seven Seconds in the Bronx Arts Mind Reading) and Conclusion (Listening Eye: Lessons from Blink).

This book gives an example of how the power of snap judgment (conclusion heartbeat) and thin slicing (thin footage) of some people who’ve experienced it: experts recognize the falsity of art objects antiques, expert tasting food that can instantly distinguish different brands sesap only once; or how the dangers of making quick conclusions: choose the president only of his physical condition, the car salesman who failed to market his wares only for assessing the performance of the buyer, police friendly fire, and so on.

It shows that people who are good at taking the right decision is not the most stout people who process information, for example the success of Van Riper veteran general who defeated generals active in the war simulation game Gulf War that is too long to analyze the situation. People who train themselves to perfecting the art of making thin snippets – a little filter the most important factors of a number of possible mounting – will make appropriate conclusions and determine a heartbeat, which is not a waste of time. Toh also finally turned out the same conclusion drawn after the various analyzes that long and expensive.

This book is interesting because we certainly never experienced the blink phenomenon. Suddenly hit bad thoughts facing a situation, immediately decided to turn around while driving a vehicle and turns right in front of us and then happen kecelakaaan streak, immediately decided to buy something that is indeed worth purchasing, or even soon be able to judge a book or article is really interesting or not.

This book will inspire us to train blink. Do not like wak Hajj sbling that should eventually be walking atm bengal child!