[Atlasphere]Ayn Rand and Malcolm Gladwell?s ?Blink? Thesis

[O-Land News Junkie]

From a new article at Desicritics.org titled Book Review: Malcolm Gladwell and Ayn Rand:

f you simply dig a little under the words Gladwell uses, such as “instincts,” “snap judgments,” and “thinking without thinking,” what you will realize is that Gladwell's thesis is not novel in any significant sense, at least not to someone who is well-versed with Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism.

Ayn Rand had decades ago stated that one must “trust your subconscious” while engaged in the task of writing. However, like much else of what Rand said, this little instruction to trust one's own subconscious mind can be extended beyond the context of writing and applied to practically every realm and action in life.

See the for more on the parallels between Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and Malcolm Gladwell’s thesis in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.

http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/651.php