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    Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
    Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
    Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
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    Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

    Written by Gary Klein

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    Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels the mystery.

    Klein is a keen observer of people in their natural settings—scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, police officers, soldiers, family members, friends, himself—and uses a marvelous variety of stories to illuminate his research into what insights are and how they happen. What, for example, enabled Harry Markopolos to put the finger on Bernie Madoff? How did Dr. Michael Gottlieb make the connections between different patients that allowed him to publish the first announcement of the AIDS epidemic? What did Admiral Yamamoto see (and what did the Americans miss) in a 1940 British attack on the Italian fleet that enabled him to develop the strategy of attack at Pearl Harbor? How did a "smokejumper" see that setting another fire would save his life, while those who ignored his insight perished? How did Martin Chalfie come up with a million-dollar idea (and a Nobel Prize) for a natural flashlight that enabled researchers to look inside living organisms to watch biological processes in action?

    Klein also dissects impediments to insight, such as when organizations claim to value employee creativity and to encourage breakthroughs but in reality block disruptive ideas and prioritize avoidance of mistakes. Or when information technology systems are "dumb by design" and block potential discoveries.

    Both scientifically sophisticated and fun to listen to, Seeing What Others Don't shows that insight is not just a "eureka!" moment but a whole new way of understanding.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781480592834
    Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
    Author

    Gary Klein

    Gary Klein, PhD, a senior scientist at MacroCognition LLC, was instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making. Dr. Klein received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. He spent the first phase of his career in academia and the second phase working for the government as a research psychologist for the U.S. Air Force. The third phase, in private industry, started in 1978 when he founded Klein Associates, a research and development company that had grown to thirty-seven employees by the time he sold it in 2005. He is the author of Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions; The Power of Intuition; Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (with Beth Crandall and Robert Hoffman); and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making. Dr. Klein lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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    • 3/5
      The author takes forever to get to the point. Alas!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I found it uninspiring. The length could be cut in half easily and still convey the same message.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazing book! Extremely recommended to everyone who likes to think out of box

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It's awsome!!! It's really amazing hoy our mind can work it Out to genial an insight!
    • 5/5
      This book changes he way you think if you deal with data or patterns!

      Doesn’t matter your job! Check it out!
    • 4/5
      Great to listen to and enjoyed his version of how we come about our insights. Great stories to remember and to get you thinking about your approach to when you need to take a different + more in depth view on a matter.
    • 5/5
      An interesting book I must say. Gary Klein has some amazing findings here which indeed show not just something that happens but something that I have seen happening to me too. Well done research with models provided for tracing how insights come into work. What is the aha! Moment and where in our mind does that happen. Many many things that call this book to be read with a pen and paper in hand. Good for research and thesis writing as well.
    • 4/5
      A very interesting book. Well written too, but for some reason I found it hard to keep track of the points he was making as I listened. Maybe better to read a hard copy.
      Also I found the audio kept dropping out for maybe half a second at the start of each section. Not sure what’s going on there, but I would lose a word or two each time it happened.
    • 5/5
      I listened to the audiobook. Quite insightful tho. Thinking about buying the book
    • 5/5
      Gary presented his ideas very clearly and between the personal stories and "aha" moments of these anecdotes I was equally learning as I was captivated. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in personal development. the concepts were simplified through Gary's translation and I feel like I will be able to begin to look for insights and "aha" moments in my own career and life. will definitely check out his other books as well as revisit this one!
    • 4/5
      Informative but redundant. Could have delivered the same message for half the length of the book.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this interesting audio book. Well written and spoken.
    • 5/5
      Excellent mini case studies and stories throughout to illustrate points. Changed how I view my thinking. A classic to revisit to keep your thinking sharp.
    • 4/5
      My first audio book involved a shift away from my traditional way of reading and notetaking so I need to expand the expectations and ways I process information. This was a good starting point because it forced me to think about how insights work and how I gather information, make connections, and allow insights to unravel.
      The narration was good although the book could have been shorter. Some of the examples offer gems into the spontenaiety and value of connections made within the brain. A good work to listen to and I gained some valuable insights.
    • 4/5
      The book offers a set of very interesting examples of insight and a good analysis of how they came to happen an the differences between them. While most is personal interpretation from the author, we can take many good ideas and principles for practical application in daily life.
    • 4/5
      Interesting book about insights- Very interesting how you have to go beyond the procedures to get insights- Need to try to get useful insights not the useless ones. Need to practice looking for insights. Interesting book overall- slightly insightlful.
    • 3/5
      I am not sure if I will be able to see what others don’t but my awareness around insight was enlightened. I loved the emphasis on balancing error-proofing and risk aversion with insight ( down arrow and up arrow balance), in life and within organizations. As a perfectionist and someone who always aspires to produce quality and ensure that I always comply, the book made me realize that I tend to be fixated on ideas, beliefs and ways to execute tasks that I might be inhibiting potential insights. I loved how the author explained the drivers of insight with the triple path - contradiction (find inconsistency), connection (coincidence, curiosity or spot implication), creative desperation (escape an impasse or deadend) - as well as the case studies he included to describe and discuss these concepts.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Okay, but not great. The biggest take-aways for me were captured in a couple of the few figures in the book: the visual formula with the up and down arrows (the former being increasing insights, the latter being decreasing errors and uncertainty) and the chart depicting the Three-Path Model (with the contradiction path, the connection path, and the creative desperation path). I'd like to see more in the future about constructive approaches to generating more insights. The author only seemed to give lukewarm effort in this area, seeming to feel that there were too many obstacles to success.