Getting to Know You in a Blink

I am so excited to be the next guest host for Getting to Know You Wednesday on CaC.

DebR has left me some big Red shoes to fill.

I finished a book awhile ago called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. In his book, Malcolm opines about thinking without thinking, and the value of making snap decisions.

Throughout my read, however, I kept returning to the dust jacket photograph of Malcolm. I wondered about his white-man Afro, and if spontaneous decision-making played any part in it.

And then I notice that I've careened off topic into the valley of questionable hair styles.

Anyway....

So this meme is a chance to practice snap decision making. Here are your instructions:

Answer the following questions by intuition ... whatever comes to you immediately.

If you spend more than 2 seconds on the answer, leave it blank  and move to the next question.

Ready?

1. You run into a friend who has just chopped off all her  long hair (or suddenly has an Afro). What do you say?

2. You walk by a well dressed man with manicured hands who smells like a gin martini. He asks you for money. What do you do?

3. Your brother or sister or best friend falls madly in love with someone you think is a jerk. What do you do?

4. You get a terrible present from your husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend. Do you let it show?

5. Who's your favorite Beatle?

6. You walk by a disheveled man wearing soiled & tattered clothes. He politely asks you for money. What do you do?

6. Skinny Elvis or Fat Elvis?

Good job!

Next, go find an outrageous picture of your Elvis on the net and post it at the bottom of your answers. Be sure to give credit to the photographer.

(Give yourself bonus points for velvet).

Here's a link to my snap answers.

Comments

[Gina]

I played as well, I get bonus points for the elvis pic. :)

http://www.atypicalfemale.com/2007/02/09/getting-to-know-you-in-a-blink/

[DebR]

Here's mine:
http://debrichardson.com/blog/2007/02/09/cac-getting-to-know-you-week-6/
That was fun! :-)

[kristen]

http://ardentpeace.blogspot.com/

ever late....

[Nikki]

I did it too! I could link a picture though! Having trouble with html codes.

http://shakeyourbootynow.blogspot.com/2007/02/create-connection.html#links

[Kim]

Great fun!
http://artfulvisions.wordpress.com/

[MaryAnn]

What fun! I definately didn't get the extra point. I also gotta put my pic at the bottom. durn!

[nyjlm]

Fun!
http://nyjlm.blogspot.com/2007/02/getting-to-know-you-in-blink.html

[Debra Roby]

Darn, no velvet... unless Mars is made of velvet. Almost ran out of time on the "loves a jerk" question, but slid in just under the tick!! You can find my answers here:
http://debsdistractions.blogspot.com/2007/02/snap-lets-make-connection_07.html

[Ki]

http://butstillrunning.blogspot.com/2007/02/snap-answers-to-connect.html

Brain...hurting...must...think...faster!

[ArtyLady]

I've done it - found this really easy, apart from the locating a photo.

Thanks for the questions.

www.artylady.blogspot.com

[Cynthia]

After a 20 day unexplained absence, I am back in the fray. You can get to know me at http://gracefuljourney.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/back-in-the-fray/

[JulieZS]

Hey, those were fun. No velvet for me. http://highfibercontent.blogspot.com/2007/02/snap-decisions.html

[angela]

i played :)
super fun!

http://coded-green.blogspot.com/2007/02/twice-in-one-day.html

[Janet]

Can a black man have a white man afro? Hmmm...

My answers are up!

[Tammy]

What fun!! I answered all of the questions quicker than the time it took me to find my Elvis pic! :)
http://tamberstone.blogspot.com/2007/02/create-connection-getting-to-know-you.html

[Jamie]

Here's mine:

http://starshyneproductions.blogspot.com/2007/02/getting-to-know-you-in-blink.html

[gkgirl]

heh...
no velvet points for me,
but here i am anyway...
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/

[Vanessa]

I had so much fun with this! Thank you swamp girl.
The results of my efforts are posted here:
http://risingtothechallenge.blogspot.com/2007/02/create-connection-getting-to-know-you.html
Vxxx

[whiskyminx]

I don't think I got the extra point for velvet?!

But at least I gave it a try :)

http://whiskyminx.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-blink-getting-to-know-you-for-create.html

Hugs

Whisky

xxxxx