Blink
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
Introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems.
In earlier discussions, however, I was referring to things that impair our ability to solve problems. Now I’m talking about the loss of a much more fundamental ability, namely the ability to know our own mind. In this case we have a much more specific explanation for why introspections mess up our reactions. It’s that we simply don’t have any way of explaining our feelings about things.