Cultivating Instinct
summary
Argues that intuition is teachable by perceptual learning and gives concrete experiments: Eleanor Gibson’s swivel trials show recognition without explicit rules; a Japanese chick‑sexing school reaches 97% accuracy at 1,200 chicks/hour after two years of paired practice; Kalman’s pilot study uses three hours of short trials (20s videos) to raise accuracy from ~50% to ~80% and bring non‑pilots to ~60%; classroom fraction recognition training lifts scores from ~40% to ~70% and lasts months.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Personal introduction
- 1:13Understanding synesthesia
- 2:29Learning through patterns
- 3:50The nature of expertise
- 5:42Teaching intuition
- 7:36The science of perception
- 10:03Novices vs. experts
- 13:20Deliberate skill training
- 17:20Programming expertise
- 22:16Designing training
- 25:48Closing thoughts
