thinking without thinking

"When it comes to the task of understanding ourselves and our world, I think we pay too much attention to those grand themes and too little to the particulars of those fleeting moments. But what would happen if we took our instincts seriously? What if we stopped scanning the horizon with our binoculars and began instead examining our own decision making and behavior through the most powerful of microscopes?

.. the task of making sense of ourselves and our behavior requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in the blink of an eye.. "

- Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell