There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. - Malcolm Gladwell

I am like a decapitated pine. Pine trees do not regenerate their tops. They stay twisted, crippled.They grow in thickness, perhaps, and that is what I am doing.

Puzzle Number One: Why can’t we tell when the stranger in front of us is lying to our face?

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.