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“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.” Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list — so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point.

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In 2007 I read a fascinating book called Gut feelings: the intelligence of the unconscious by the cognitive psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. In it Gigerenzer looks at the research that underpins our understanding of intuition and asked the question “where do these feelings come from?” He then explores the world of ‘rules of thumb’. These are decisions that may at first look like reasoning errors, from a purely logical perspective, however, can in fact, be highly nuanced social intelligence decisions which involve aspects of trust, deception, rumour, wishful thinking and cooperation. This was a well researched and invaluable book; however, at the end of it I was left wondering about the expression in its title “gut feeling”.

Did any of this intuitive thinking involve my gut? So to gut-decisions.