Sublime

Recognitional decisions depend on decades of experience to build up hundreds and thousands of patterns.

the power of contradictions.

made rapid decisions by recognizing how the situations they encountered fit the patterns they had learned. The pattern-matching part of their decisions was fast and automatic.

Insight advocates could share what they learn by using stories.

In my sample, experts did become trapped by their assumptions.

We should encourage group and network collaboration as opposed to individual efforts.

One idea is to set up a team of insight advocates to promote practices that encourage discoveries.

we should find ways to increase the density of ideas to which we are exposed

five different strategies for gaining insights: connections, coincidences, curiosities, contradictions, and creative desperation.