Quotes About Insight

Tversky Intelligence Test": The faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were.

If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense.

From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment.

por qué las mejores decisiones suelen ser las más difíciles de explicar?

look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on

The world - much as we want it to - does not accord with our intuition.

and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Thin-slicing refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns ins situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience.

talked to every person aged twenty-one

practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

The unobservables create noise, not signal.

When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.

Now let's do the same kind of analysis for people like

I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we're better off that way.

remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see

lo que se aprende por necesidad está mucho más cargado de significado que lo que se aprende fácilmente.

Malcolm Gladwell

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.

Algunos de estos nuevos pensadores afirman que si tuviésemos un mejor servicio de información, si pudiésemos verlo todo, no podríamos perder», dice el coronel Van Riper. «Lo que mi hermano dice siempre es: "Imagínate que estás mirando un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Hay algo que no veas? No. ¿Y eso te garantiza la victoria? Ni mucho menos, porque nunca podrás ver lo que está pensando el otro".

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

We answered him when we could. And when we couldn't, we would just give him a book.

We need a trigger to snap out of the default to truth, but the threshold for triggers is high.