Insights and diagnosis

Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights In the past I have written about Gary Klein. He helped create and popularize naturalistic decision making. Rather than explore decision making through contrived mental exercises, he prefers to observe decision making in the field and make inferences from those observations. His approach focuses more on how experts get things right, rather than the types of errors that we make. His new book ostensibly focuses on a completely new concept, how we get insights. He defines insights with this quote: Intuition is the use of patterns they’ve already burned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns. Examples of insights abound in this book. Marshall discovering that h. pylori causes most ulcers (and gastric cancers). Fleming discovering penicillin. Markopolos figuring out that Bernie Madoff was dishonest. Klein studies insight stories and extrapolates to principles. I put my trust in the stories, not in the theories. As opposed to previous research on insights, he prefers studying stories of insights rather than contrived experiments. So what does he learn? He describes a Triple Path Model I’ve combined the connections, coincidences, and curiosities in the Triple Path Model. They have the same dynamic: to build on a new potential anchor. They have the same trigger: our thinking is stimulated when we notice the new anchor. Coincidences and curiosities aren’t insights in themselves; they start us on t...
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