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“Blink, Under Pressure: Testing Fast-and-Frugal Thinking in Ethical Dilemmas”
In this activity, students will put Gladwell’s concepts around the power of intuition to the test by applying their own Fast-and-Frugal thinking to highly difficult and morally ambiguous scenarios.
Gladwell’s main advice for how to sharpen your Fast-and-Frugal Thinking skills is to simply use them. In this exercise, you will be given the chance to hone your own intuitive skills by applying your gut instinct to a series of scenarios that present moral dilemmas. Use your best—and fastest—judgment to come up with a solution to each scenario, while remembering that there are no right answers.
Create a scenario for each of the following questions, each of which suggests a different moral dilemma. Then, take no more than 3 minutes to write 3-4 sentences on the decision you’d make, and your reasoning behind it:
Once everyone has written their responses, discuss your scenarios and answers as a class.
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