Everyone lives their daily lives in today's generation without realizing what really matters in the world and whether we really have a balance in our lives. Our sense of self, our identity, is called into question as this balance between our perception and the perception of others is reflected in the responses of others around us. Pallasmaa exemplifies this idea by implicating the significance of our senses and how they lead to detachment because ““neglect of the body and senses” has created “an imbalance in our sensory system” (Pallasmaa 284). In order to understand our sense of self, we must unite our five senses together rather than separately because they allow us to completely detach. By detaching ourselves we think about our identity; we come to the realization of our inner world. Likewise, the decisions we make in our daily lives have consequences. The result of our actions determines whether the consequence is good or bad. Our sense of what is best for us determines our sense of self; the ability to criticize oneself. Gladwell shows how using his senses in casting helped him find his inner self. Take for example the situation with the four black men on the train and how Goetz shot all the men in response to his mind considering the fact that he felt unsafe. "The tipping point of this epidemic, however, is not a