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Insights-like Darwin's knowledge of the way evolution really works, and Watson and Crick's discovery discoveries about the composition of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the every day things that frustrate and mistake us so that we can better solve problems and get things done. Yet we realize hardly any 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 unknown. Klein is an enthusiastic observer of folks in their natural settings-scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, cops, soldiers, family, friends, himself-and uses a wonderful variety of tales to light up his research into what insights are and how they happen. What, for example, allowed Harry Markopolos to place the finger on Bernie Madoff? How performed Dr. Michael Gottlieb make the connections between different patients that allowed him to publish the first announcement of the Assists epidemic? What performed Admiral Yamamoto see (and what performed the People in america miss) in a 1940 English episode on the Italian fleet that allowed him to develop the strategy of episode at Pearl Harbor? How performed a "smokejumper" observe that setting another flame would save his life, while those who overlooked his understanding perished? How performed Martin Chalfie think of a million-dollar idea (and a Nobel Prize) for an all natural flashlight that allowed researchers to look inside living microorganisms to watch biological processes in action? Klein also dissects impediments to understanding, such as when organizations lay claim to value staff creativity and encourage breakthroughs however in reality block disruptive ideas and prioritize avoidance of errors. Or when information technology systems are "dumb by design" and block potential discoveries. Both scientifically advanced and fun to listen to, Seeing What Others Don't demonstrates understanding is not only a "eureka!" instant but a whole new way of understanding.
