I agree with the post generally. However, the chef example is (I think) somewhat flawed, as with all TV the footage is edited before you see it. So you have no idea how many pieces of advice the chef mentor gave that were edited out. In the UK version of the Apprentice the contestants would have a 3 hour planning session that would be edited down to 5 minutes, so you knew that whatever it was they were talking about in that 5 minutes of footage was the decision that would dominate their performance, meaning (as a viewer) it was very easy to see what was going to go wrong ahead of time.
You’re right but I like the chef example anyway. Even if cherry picked, it does get at a core truth—this kind of intuition evolves in every field. I love the stories of old hands intuitively seeing things a mile away.
I agree with the post generally. However, the chef example is (I think) somewhat flawed, as with all TV the footage is edited before you see it. So you have no idea how many pieces of advice the chef mentor gave that were edited out. In the UK version of the Apprentice the contestants would have a 3 hour planning session that would be edited down to 5 minutes, so you knew that whatever it was they were talking about in that 5 minutes of footage was the decision that would dominate their performance, meaning (as a viewer) it was very easy to see what was going to go wrong ahead of time.
You’re right but I like the chef example anyway. Even if cherry picked, it does get at a core truth—this kind of intuition evolves in every field. I love the stories of old hands intuitively seeing things a mile away.