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Gladwell’s work with the “blink mind” pointed the way to a paradigm shift in how we think—and thus how we see ourselves. The discovery of the deeper intelligence (DI) and the “blink language” in which it communicates exponentially increases the paradigm shift. Truly, having broken through to the “other 90%” ...
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In a word, the history of science reflects that paradigm shifts are resisted like the plague. People are territorial and resistant to change. The greater the change the more it’s resisted—and folks, the discovery of the deeper intelligence is a paradigm shift of unbelievable magnitude. Imagine breaking through to that ...
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Success broadly defined is achieving our most cherished goals, in the process getting the best out of ourselves. Clearly the conscious mind has one take on success: it’s grand and glorious, the fulfillment of our deepest desires. The DI lens gives us a new “success lens.” Here the fear of ...
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We see the same boundary issues and decision making that we do in
therapy played out in everyday life including business or
political/societal life. We continually look at life through two
different lenses. Take any issue you want: marriage, politics, social
issues, parenting, or leaders. With our new lens—the DI—speaking a new
“blink” language, we ...
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Summary of differences: Surface mind vs. “blink mind” Conscious mind’s compassion is the “blink mind’s” indulgence. Two examples: a patient consciously wants medication, his “blink mind” says, “No, be independent.” Same scenario when a patient wants to rescue his adult son again by indulging him with more money, the “blink ...
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The “blink mind’s” brilliance rises to a new level when we hear it speak, giving verbal feedback on specific issues in a distinctly unique language. The discovery that patients communicate with therapists in “blink” language opened the door to other important relationships. We have now discovered that in wide-ranging everyday ...
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And we routinely make decisions for reasons totally outside conscious awareness. This means that we have a tremendous amount to learn about ourselves—that we each possess a great unknown. Immediately, this exposes a cherished myth about ourselves: that our “heart of hearts,” our deepest and purest motivations, are located in ...
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In this way Langs discovered there were secret boundaries in therapy—hidden to the conscious mind—which had a great effect one way or other in meeting a patient’s basic deep down needs. He was able to identify three basic “blink” needs everyone consistently had—all based on principles of healthy boundary management ...
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In 1971, New York psychiatrist Robert Langs discovered the language of the “blink mind.” He consistently observed that his patients’ unconscious intuitively guided them to wise decisions by an unconscious “repeat the idea/story code”—as though our mind is telling us a parable by repeating the same hidden story. Consciously on ...
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In Blink, Gladwell did a remarkable job of underscoring the importance of our unconscious mind and of removing the stigma of “psychobabble” with which it’s too often associated. He did not, however, address the next step—the discovery of the specific language of the unconscious and how it actually speaks ...
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In his best selling book, Blink, author Malcolm
Gladwell presents an important and basic picture of the power of this hidden
chamber of our minds. Although the breakthrough to the deeper intelligence
occurred years before his book was published, Gladwell—who worked for many
years as a science writer for The Washington Post—clearly demonstrates ...
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