Quotes About Insight

practical strategies for creating special moments using the four key elements of memorable experiences: elevation, insight, pride, and connection.

We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.

Like a solutions-focused therapist, look for the flashes of success.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us.

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

we are quick to jump to conclusions because we give too much weight to the information that's right in front of us, while failing to consider the information that's just offstage. He called this tendency "what you see is all there is.

Kahneman says that we are quick to jump to conclusions because we give too much weight to the information that's right in front of us, while failing to consider the information that's just offstage. He called this tendency "what you see is all there is.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Surprise isn't enough. We also need insight.

just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

Moments of insight deliver realizations and transformations.

as soon as people know what the intent is they begin generating their own solutions.

Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy—when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision.

Once you break through to feeling, though, things change.

That's not intuitive knowledge.

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

If you want your ideas to be stickier, you've got to break someone's guessing machine and then fix it. But in surprising people, in breaking their guessing machines, how do we avoid gimmicky surprise, like the wolves? The easiest way to avoid gimmicky surprise and ensure that your unexpected ideas produce insight is to make sure you target an aspect of your audience's guessing machines that relates to your core message. We

Target a specific moment and then challenge yourself: How can I elevate it? Spark insight? Boost the sense of connection? Life is full of "form letter in an envelope" moments, waiting to be transformed into something special.

Kahneman says that we are quick to jump to conclusions because we give too much weight to the information that's right in front of us, while failing to consider the information that's just offstage.

the value of asking more questions and listening to the answers.

This is what we mean by "thinking in moments": to recognize where the prose of life needs punctuation.

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.