Chapter 59 expert intuition

He can pick out the pullets with precision just by looking at a brood of chicks.How did this magic trick come about? During the Great Depression of the 1930s, American chicken farmers were faced with a problem that threatened their businesses because of the economic downturn: they had to be able to tell the sexes of chicks shortly after they hatched, so that future generations The hens that lay eggs are kept or sold for profit; and the roosters, most of them have no market value, because raising them to maturity violates the rate of return on investment at that time. The most correct way to distinguish male and female chickens is of course to look at their genitals, but this work is quite time-consuming, and what chicken farmers need is a method that can quickly and accurately distinguish males and females.So they invited five experts in this field from Japan, among them was an expert named Yokohiko Zengpo, who could distinguish the sex of 1,400 chicks that had only hatched for one day within an hour, and the accuracy rate Up to ninety-eight percent.What puzzled these American chicken farmers was that Yokohiko Sopporo didn't need to look at the sex organs of the chicks at all. He could pick out the pullets just by looking at a brood of chicks.What's even more strange is that Yokohiko Zengpo couldn't explain the reason for his own unique skill. The chickens all looked the same in appearance, and it was impossible to distinguish between male and female.However, he said that this kind of unique skill is a method that he naturally understands after touching and seeing three or four million chickens, which is hard to describe.The wonderful thing is that Americans who are interested in this kind of industry watched Yokohiko Sopporo's identification of chickens, and after three months, they also learned the untold secret of Yokohiko Sopporo.

Yokohiko Zengpo's unique skill is the so-called intuition. Experts in all walks of life have similar intuitions. The so-called practice makes perfect. This clever word cannot be found without rules, and it cannot be learned by computers. In fact, each of us is more or less an expert in a certain field, such as walking and driving. At the beginning of learning, we may have to follow the rules step by step, but when we are proficient, we can forget those rules or jump out of them, and rely on intuition. Walk or drive.There is no other secret of ingenuity, which is to accept long-term training and do it yourself.