Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (The MIT Press)

by Gary Klein

In this case, the events were not typical, and his reaction was to pull back, regroup, and try to get a better sense of what was going on.

He may not have been able to articulate the patterns or describe their features, but he was relying on the pattern-matching process to let him feel comfortable that he had the situation scoped out.

My claim in this chapter is that intuition grows out of experience.

Another reason that he could not describe his use of experience was that he was reacting to things that were not happening rather than to things that were.