it was while watching the fighting that he suddenly had a flash of insight which showed him the way around the mathematical logjam that had been holding him up. It was a classic example of the way the answer to a problem you have been struggling with can pop into your head once you stop looking for the solution.
Mary Gribbin • Ice Age
The key difference is how the essence is captured. Patterns are absorbed and refined over time, stored away in the deep, nonverbal recesses of your mind, and conveyed to you in the form of hunches. The hunch that a particular ballcarrier is about to dart left, or that your spouse is ready to explode in anger, is the result of recognized patterns fr
... See moreSteve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
There is a striking uniformity in the way creative people-artists, writers, mathemati-cians, scientists, and philosophers-speak about the process of production and problem solving. Ghiselin (1952) has collected into one volume a number of essays on the creative pro-cess by a variety of creative workers from Poincare to Picasso. As Ghiselin accurate... See more
Richard E. Nisbett • Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
How can we gain more insights? That challenge seems pretty daunting, but we can make it more manageable if we examine each of the insight paths separately. The Triple Path Model of insight suggests the different routes we can take (see diagram).