Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 R is for ReadingI like reading books and thinking about how they relate to orienteering. I've been reading Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Blink.Blink is about making decisions, fast decisions in particular. From the inside cover of the book: Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant -- in the blink of an eye -- that actually aren't as simple as they seem. That sounds like orienteering doesn't it? Gladwell covers a lot of ground. Among other things, he writes about what he calls "the locked door." Gladwell makes the point that the way people explain decisions they've made isn't really the way they make decisions. People aren't good at explaining the way they think. That is an interesting idea in the context of orienteering decisions. After races we all stand around talking about how we orienteered. But when we talk about what we were doing and what we were thinking, are we getting it right? I suspect two types of orienteers are good at explaining what they are doing: orienteers who are very systematic as they race (maybe someone like Kent Olsson or Peter Gagarin?) and really lousy orienteers. I'll keep reading the book and might write a bit more about it. Gladwell maintains a web page full of his writing (mostly New Yorker articles). Poking around Gladwell.com, reading his published articles, can be a great way to spend some time. If you like what you see in his articles, pick up a copy of Blink or The Tipping Point. posted by Michael | 7:13 PM 
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