Knowledge patterns
Just to continue the comparison between sport reflexes and intellectual reasoning, let's read further Haecke's article. He continues to argue that patterns recognition is the secret of sport champions, extending the concept to business executives.
"In business terms, Marshall Faulk is an excellent sense-and-respond decision-maker. His decisions are not analytical, or 'data driven', even though he spends an extraordinary amount of time studying films to extract the tendencies of opposing teams and coaches - what they are likely to do under a variety of game situations. As he watches the films, he is looking for and internalizing patterns. When he is given the ball, it is his pattern recognition capability, not his reasoning skill, that enables him to anticipate and respond to what is happening on the field. The patterns he recognizes are systems patterns, not activity sequences. The current relationships between the players, more than the current actions of them, informs Faulk's real-time decisions."
Haeckel's analysis is typically what we do when we learn in several situations, during our life, building on top of the previous experience a new one. This lead to - at least in a professional environment - to a valuable experience employers are ready to pay for. That's why an experienced person is a perfect match in a specific situation, because he has integrated in his mind multiple situations where he can rely on in order to take a decision. It's the same phenomenon that you have in car driving, when without any conscious analysis, you jump on the brake avoiding a car crash.
"In business terms, Marshall Faulk is an excellent sense-and-respond decision-maker. His decisions are not analytical, or 'data driven', even though he spends an extraordinary amount of time studying films to extract the tendencies of opposing teams and coaches - what they are likely to do under a variety of game situations. As he watches the films, he is looking for and internalizing patterns. When he is given the ball, it is his pattern recognition capability, not his reasoning skill, that enables him to anticipate and respond to what is happening on the field. The patterns he recognizes are systems patterns, not activity sequences. The current relationships between the players, more than the current actions of them, informs Faulk's real-time decisions."
Haeckel's analysis is typically what we do when we learn in several situations, during our life, building on top of the previous experience a new one. This lead to - at least in a professional environment - to a valuable experience employers are ready to pay for. That's why an experienced person is a perfect match in a specific situation, because he has integrated in his mind multiple situations where he can rely on in order to take a decision. It's the same phenomenon that you have in car driving, when without any conscious analysis, you jump on the brake avoiding a car crash.
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