

While pillorying this event, Dunbar makes a broader attack on Damian’s character, depicting him as a habitual charlatan. William Dunbar wrote the poem “A Ballad of The False Friar of Tongland, How He Fell in the Mire Flying to Turkey” about it, mocking his attempts. In 1507, John Damian strapped on wings covered with chicken feathers and jumped from the walls of Stirling Castle in Scotland, breaking his thigh he later blamed it on not using eagle feathers. Source: 23 Photos of the Wright Brothers’ Flights #1 Misinterpreting problem elements:

A Case Study: Insight problems in the history of aviation. Here’s an illustration of how they have manifested in the history of Aviation. We are working with insufficient information to achieve success.We focus on information retrieved from memory that is not pertinent to obtaining the solution and may, in fact, lead us away from the solution or.We misrepresent the problem elements in such a way as to preclude solution.There are three reasons why we can get stuck with these problems: When we are trying to solve a problem, but are unable to find a solution. Insight Problems - When do we need insights? Igor Zakhlenuik, Insight Lead, Market Gravity. So it is difficult to keep digging for the ultimate “why?”īut it’s important to keep our eyes and ears open for new observations and be open to exploring the issue from multiple angles. In a business context, you usually don’t have weeks or even days of analyzing data post-research. You’re never there to just have nice chats with people, you’re there to crack a problem. When you’re doing research in a commercial setting - the organization’s or client’s objectives are what drives the efforts. It’s their subconscious nature that makes them unpredictable, and therefore unreliable in the business context. The Problem With InsightsĪctively looking for patterns in the data or information you gather takes a lot of time. They feel like a lightning bolt and literally give you a hot flush, when you realise “That’s what’s going on here! I had no idea!I was thinking about it the wrong way! And that means that …” It’s because bits of existing knowledge align in your head just the right was, and some new observation lights the gunpowder and boom! - all is revealed. Amos Schorr, Principal, Hack Summit Labs Most of the work happens in the background as our brain is making sense of vast quantities of information. We find them subconsciously, and we aren’t actually aware of the chain of inferences that yield insights. Having an insight moves us from a state of not knowing how to solve a problem to a state of knowing how to solve it.
