Response to Analysis Of Text "Blink"

I haven't read the text Blink but this overview was helpful. In my early days in business I was educated to believe that analysis was more important than my gut feel and instincts, which may be premature. As I have got older and better at understanding that finance and other numbers are derived from human judgements as well as hard facts, I've begun to return to gut feel as a valid measure of a situation, particularly when the information is fuzzy and unclear. The sense that "if something walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it probably IS a duck" tells me I should look at the analysis again, because something isn't right.

However, I do reserve my judgements on people for more than initial impressions, as good people are multi-dimensional and 3 mins might tell you how you FEEL, but not whether this is valid.

The book seems to indicate that gut instincts rule the business world. Good job I'm tall......