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What this book knows
Insight is not magic but a traceable cognitive event—blocked by false beliefs, passivity, and system design, and unlocked by active pattern-breaking.
mind-and-cognition
He was startled to find that an adenine-thymine pair had the identical shape as a guanine-cytosine pair. In that instant the double helix model formed.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-092'The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.' Watson was tuned to look for a helix; Franklin was tuned to look for evidence against one.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-095self-and-identity
Even when we have lots of experience, if we are gripped by a flawed belief, we will miss the insights sitting right in front of us.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-088Chargaff was content with his research program. He didn't have the active attitude of Watson and Crick to inquire about what his own discovery might mean.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-094work-as-meaning
To improve performance we need to do two things. We don't want to be trapped by perfection—we want insights about a better vision than the one we started with.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-109Burry sensed a contradiction between the public display of optimism and the private practice of reducing standards, and predicted the real estate market would soon decline.
VLA-7DFA6C2B-RC-047Illuminates
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