All 10 Uses of
rational
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- I believe—and I hope that by the end of this book you will believe it as well—that 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 as in months of rational analysis.†
Chpt Intr.rational = reasonable
- He nodded lightly and said, "Yeah, I know," and then added, "I'm not saying it's rational.†
Chpt 1
- People with damage to their ventromedial area are perfectly rational.†
Chpt 2
- In high-stakes, fast-moving situations, we don't want to be as dispassionate and purely rational as the Iowa ventromedial patients.†
Chpt 2
- We know we cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with:
Chpt 2 *rationally = in a manner based on using reason rather than emotion
- It's because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.†
Chpt 3rational = reasonable
- They were given an unprecedented amount of information and intelligence from every corner of the U.S. government and a methodology that was logical and systematic and rational and rigorous.†
Chpt 4
- It wasn't that Van Riper hated all rational analysis.†
Chpt 4
- In a way, it was a lot like the kind of failure suffered by the Getty when it came to evaluating the kouros: they had conducted a thoroughly rational and rigorous analysis that covered every conceivable contingency, yet that analysis somehow missed a truth that should have been picked up instinctively.†
Chpt 4
- It was obvious that there was no standardized, rational way of making this decision.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, rational numbers in mathematics are numbers that can be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, 1/3 is a rational number while pi is an irrational number.