I wanted to read Gary Klein's books as his work was referred by many of my favorite authors. When I came across his latest book, 'Seeing What Others Don't', I went through the same. The reading of the book has been a highly rewarding experience.
Based on my observations, the narrative of Malcolm Gladwell has been highly engaging. In fact, Gladwell, Tim Harford, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and score of others get perfect score! I could notice that Tim Harford broke new ground in his latest title, 'The Undercover Economist Strikes Back' through 'the dialogue style' of writing. The titles by these authors expand the intellectual horizons of the readers. When reading Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' the narrative scored perfectly; over and above there was the benefit of vantage view into the the mind of the Nobel Laureate. The reading was highly rewarding. I was equally rewarded while I read Martin Seligman's 'Flourish' so was the case with Taleb's 'The Black Swan'. While reading this title by Klein, I got the similar rewarding experience.
I share the detailed account of the experience here. Gary Klein has been one of the pioneers of the Positive Psychology movement along with Martin Seligman. Klein has done seminal work on decision making. The present book is a Positive Psychology initiative in the field of decision making. There has been exhaustive study on improving efficiency, now there is a need to leverage the positive aspect of our mind. The outstanding aspect about Gary Klein is in the research method itself. While the thrust of the research used to be in 'Laboratory Methods'; Gary Klein focused on 'Natural Methods' by interviewing the veteran fire fighters about their decisions in the worst fire events, a quarter century back. He could arrive with great insights.
In this book, Gary Klein goes deeper into the insights. Not only he applies 'Natural Methods' in the study; he pulls his readers into the process. In the process he helps readers find their own insights!
(To be continued...)
(To be continued...)
