All 18 Uses of
insight
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- Williams was perhaps the greatest hitter of all time, a man revered for his knowledge and insight into the art of hitting.†
Chpt 2
- He was the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind-the-scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity.†
Chpt 3
- This is an insight puzzle.†
Chpt 4
- Here's another insight puzzle: A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point.†
Chpt 4
- When Schooler did this experiment with a whole sheet of insight puzzles, he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30 percent fewer problems than those who weren't.†
Chpt 4
- In short, when you write down your thoughts, your chances of having the flash of insight you need in order to come up with a solution are significantly impaired—just as describing the face of your waitress made you unable to pick her out of a police lineup.†
Chpt 4
- But problems that require a flash of insight operate by different rules.
Chpt 4 *insight = a clear understanding of some aspect of a complex situation
- As human beings, we are capable of extraordinary leaps of insight and instinct.†
Chpt 4
- Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads.†
Chpt 4
- Had the lieutenant stopped and discussed the situation with his men, had he said to them, let's talk this over and try to figure out what's going on, had he done, in other words, what we often think leaders are supposed to do to solve difficult problems, he might have destroyed his ability to jump to the insight that saved their lives.†
Chpt 4
- They needed to solve an insight problem, but their powers of insight had been extinguished.†
Chpt 4
- They needed to solve an insight problem, but their powers of insight had been extinguished.†
Chpt 4
- There were no surprises the second time around, no insight puzzles, no opportunities for the complexities and confusion of the real world to intrude on the Pentagon's experiment.†
Chpt 4
- This is reminiscent of Schooler's experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people's ability to solve insight problems.†
Chpt 5
- But those who have mastered it gain an extraordinary level of insight into the messages we send each other when we look into one another's eyes.†
Chpt 6
- The beginnings of this insight came when Ekman and Friesen were first sitting across from each other, working on expressions of anger and distress.†
Chpt 6
- Normal therapy is based on people's ability to have insight into their own motivations.†
Chpt 6
- But with him, insight wouldn't take you very far.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(insight) a clear understanding of some aspect of a complex situation; or a tendency to have such understandings
(often such an understanding is new and/or sudden)