Recommendation
Choi Jae-cheon, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Eco-Science at Ewha Womans University
Jeong Kyung-mi, Professor of Psychology at Yonsei University

preface
prolog

Chapter 1 Insight Intelligence

IQ+EQ〈InQ

Chapter 2: The Visible and the Invisible

Observation, the eternal foundation ┃ A human who knows how to see the invisible 1: The confrontation between Han Seok-bong's mother and Van Gogh ┃ Seeing with imagination ┃ A human who knows how to see the invisible 2: The Phantom Tolbooth ┃ Seeing with Gestalt strategy ┃ Making it visible: Joseon's short-haired gisaeng Kang Hyang-ran

Chapter 3: Why Humans Are Vulnerable to the Invisible

A doctor who doesn't give medicine to a child with chronic diarrhea┃Vision thinking: Failed research results are not published┃Knowledge thinking: Who doesn't know the Happy Birthday song?┃Consent thinking: Why people go to fortune-telling┃The limitations of thinking that is vulnerable to the invisible: Clueless thinking

Chapter 4: Those Who Cannot See What Is Invisible

A child suspected of having gallstones and familial hypercholesterolemia was recommended for genetic testing. ┃Who is the better shortstop, Derek Jeter or Ozzie Smith? ┃The world is imagination, and in imagination there is order: Tantalus' punishment. ┃Anonymity.

Chapter 5: The Man Who Sees the Invisible

The Law of Invisibility Cloak | The Doctor Who Interpreted the Normal as Abnormal | Lee Deok-hyung, the Same Age as Bacon | BTS at Wembley Stadium in London

Chapter 6: Getting to the Essence

Inbee Park's Dignity┃Contextual Intelligence (CQ) = Insight Intelligence (InQ)┃The Showdown Between Insight Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence 1: Serendipity┃The Showdown Between Insight Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence 2: The 'Singularity' Is Still Far Away┃Process and Result: Why We Learn Mathematics┃The Essence of Chronic Disease Treatment: The Tragedy of Easter Island┃The Bad vs. the Ugly

Chapter 7: Justification and Practicality

The Woodcutter and Kim Shin-jo | Why Humans Seem to Be Only Pragmatic | The First Argument Monopoly Phenomenon | Rationalism and Empiricism | Marital Quarrels: A Life Lesson on Saving Both Justice and Pragmatism

Chapter 8: Ten Ways to See the Invisible

I am inside you. ┃Look at your true heart. ┃The unconscious leaks. ┃What are you afraid of? ┃Cui Bono: Who benefits? ┃Gossip and imagination. ┃Pattern recognition and big data. ┃Inference: What will it be? ┃The feeling that something is strange. ┃The miracle of everyday life.

Chapter 9 And Insight Appears as Intuition

The Wave(~) Curve: The Doctor's Error of Viewing Patient Symptoms Only from the Perspective of the Disease┃Experience, Imagination, and Intuition

Epilogue

A routine to develop 'insight intelligence' in everyday life

This book is also a 'textbook of everyday life'.
Meeting people, laughing and chatting, working hard and then falling into worry, being lifted by a single word and then falling down, and smiling for a moment because of the abundance of love, each and every day is a life lesson.
You may also take tests and receive report cards in the middle of the semester.
Even though we aren't graded A, B, or C, we know our grades.
If you fail the midterm exam, you will have to wait for the final exam.
Life is the same.
Here's how I grow:
What is absolutely necessary for my growth is to know the world.
So this book focuses on insights that are always happening around us.
That's the lesson, and I wrote the book to make sure I realized the points I had to focus on and work on until the bell rang to end the lesson.
Let's look at what happens every day through this book and create our own routine.
People who are vulnerable to the invisible should start anew from the observation stage, and if they are good at seeing the invisible but have a weakness in putting it all together, they should develop the habit of looking for someone or something that can help them with their shortcomings.
If you continue to study like that, you will find yourself growing before you know it.


Lastly, this book is a 'medical textbook' and a medical textbook that can be read by the general public.
In healthcare, a system cannot function without just one provider.
Healthcare exists because there are consumers who receive services.
Therefore, if the general public could share the basics that doctors learn, it would be of great help in understanding and helping each other.
This book contains some medical episodes and a few tidbits.
The author emphasizes that it is okay to skim through slightly difficult knowledge, but he hopes that you do not miss the hidden implications.


The importance of finding context, something AI cannot do even if it dies.

This book begins with a story about IQ and EQ.
After understanding the new word InQ, which stands for insight intelligence, the book continues with examples of why observation is important, why we should use Gestalt strategies for observation, and how it is important not only to see the invisible but also to make it visible.
Next, the innate reasons why humans are so vulnerable to things that are invisible are introduced.
We look back at ourselves, who are satisfied with only what we see within the limits of our own knowledge, and introduce cases of incidents that occur because we cannot see what is invisible, and cases of success that are achieved by seeing what is invisible.


Then we begin to seriously search for the essence.
Here, essence means the truth that we seek to approach through insight.
To overcome the limitations of humans who often react only to superficial phenomena and miss the hidden essence, the author emphasizes finding the 'missing process' or 'context' and argues that we should strive to have a sense of balance between 'justification' and 'practicality' hidden in all things in the world.
And through several examples, it is demonstrated that insight intelligence is based on contextual intelligence, and that even if humans become immersed in so-called artificial intelligence (AI), human-specific insight that values ​​context and process will inevitably surpass AI.


Rationalism and empiricism, the two major branches of modern philosophy, both aim for insight.
It is impossible to judge which way of thinking is more correct, and leaning to one side will take you away from the path to success, so you must take care of both the cause and the practical.
If you carefully examine the cause and practicality of things and events to get to the essence of them, you will realize that things that were previously invisible will suddenly come to light.
And the following are listed methods of training insight.
It may be helpful for readers to use a checklist of ten or so suggested methods.
This concludes our study of 'insight intelligence' through this book.
What follows next is practice.
As you practice insight training in your daily life, you will soon feel yourself developing and be surprised at how much more intuition you have.
Let's take this opportunity to make up for the lack of recognition we've received from others due to our frequent use of outlandish scenarios.
Consistent insight training will lead us to creative and correct intuition.

A case of not seeing what is invisible

Five-month-old Yumi had been eating and growing well until then, but one day she started showing signs of difficulty, so her parents took her to a nearby large hospital.
The doctor did blood tests, urine tests, and X-rays.
But a blood test a few hours later showed high levels of inflammation.
The evidence came from a urine test: a urinary tract infection.
The doctor said that Yumi had to be hospitalized and receive antibiotic injections.
A week later, an ultrasound was performed to determine if a new kidney disease had developed as a sequela of the urinary tract infection, but an unusual finding was found.
Gallstones were found in the gallbladder.
When I did another blood test, my liver enzymes were elevated, suggesting hepatitis, and my total cholesterol was 310, which was way above the highest level.
The doctor suddenly suggested that I get a genetic test since he suspected familial hypercholesterolemia.


The startled mother asked around and came to the author's hospital.
The author looked at the previous treatment records and found a familiar antibiotic.
Ceftriaxone. This third-generation antibiotic sometimes causes pseudogallstones in the gallbladder, but the stones soon disappear when the drug is stopped.
The author asked the mother if Yumi was still breastfeeding.
Mom said so.
“Sometimes, depending on the mother’s diet, the cholesterol level of breastfed babies can rise significantly.
And don't worry too much, the reason the liver function test went up is probably temporary hepatitis related to a urinary tract infection." The child later recovered.

Thirteen-year-old Woojin has been experiencing frequent pain in his upper abdomen and lower right abdomen for the past two months.
As the cause was not identified, the patient was taking symptomatic medication provided by a primary care institution and was observed for progression. However, as the abdominal pain persisted, the patient was referred to a university hospital.
All basic tests, including blood tests, were normal, so a CT scan was performed right away.
The results showed bile sludge in the gallbladder, but no signs of inflammation in the gallbladder wall.
The doctor recommended gallbladder removal surgery, as the cause of the abdominal pain seemed to be in the gallbladder, even though there was no inflammation.
The mother, who had been watching her child suffer, immediately agreed, and the gallbladder was removed the next day.

But the child still felt stomach pain and eventually came to see the author.
What the author felt when looking at Woojin was that he was a child who was very worried and sensitive.
This was a case where functional disorder rather than disease was suspected.
These children may experience stomachaches because their past experiences dominate their present.
In particular, Woojin had an unconscious fear of defecating at school and was always worried about getting carsick before riding in a car.
Treatment focused on this area and the child soon got better.
In both cases, we witness the narrow-minded thinking, knowledge-based thinking, and satisfaction-based thinking of doctors who directly link cholecystitis and abdominal pain to a causal relationship.
If a patient has multiple symptoms and one diagnosis cannot explain them all, the doctor is wrong.
Pathological theories that explain diagnoses and symptoms have context.
However, because this context is not readily apparent, the author emphasizes that doctors must develop insightful intelligence to see the invisible.


Don't get caught up in visual thinking

Many of the mistakes humans make arise from narrow perspectives.
This is commonly referred to as 'vision thinking'.
The author mainly observes whether there are cases in which the appropriate method or timing of treatment is missed due to visual accidents between doctors and patients in hospitals.
Observation is important in insight intelligence.
This is because you can observe and recognize situations that were previously invisible and then foresee the next step.

Cases where Crohn's disease is not properly treated can also be due to doctors' narrow-minded thinking, as well as patients' narrow-minded thinking when they obtain information about the disease from the Internet.
Usually, when patients become ill, they first access information through the Internet.
The problem is that the information that appears when searching the Internet often shows negative results.
The first thing the author's patients all said was, "I've always known that Crohn's disease is a disease that causes strictures in most cases, requires surgery in more than half of cases, and is not easily treated."
The author says that it never helps treatment if patients and their families despair from the beginning.
Negative information-driven visual thinking can have far more damaging effects than the side effects of medication, yet it spreads farther and faster.

A doctor who interpreted the normal as abnormal

Would it be wrong for a doctor to interpret a patient's "normal" test results as "abnormal"? Of course, this carries the risk of misdiagnosis and should be avoided by doctors. However, if we turn our perspective around, it can sometimes be the right thing to do.
The author examines two contrasting cases in the book, suggesting that interpreting the normal as abnormal may be correct.


One day, a one-month-old baby came to the outpatient clinic because he was bloated.
It's normal for babies to have a bloated stomach because their abdominal muscles aren't developed, but this baby was bloated.
If a baby is born with a full stomach, doctors suspect congenital megacolon.
The most basic diagnostic method is a barium enema, which involves injecting a contrast agent called barium into the anus to view the shape of the colon on an X-ray.
This child also underwent a barium enema at a secondary hospital, and was found to have a narrowed rectal diameter near the anus, so he was suspected of having congenital megacolon and visited a larger hospital to meet the author.


However, in the author's view, the child was breastfed, eating well, and growing well, so it was far from congenital megacolon.
The stool was also reported as loose stool.
I immediately performed a pressure test and a tissue biopsy, and they were all normal.
And tissue biopsy showed eosinophils that reacted with allergens.
This was the problem.
The diagnosis was allergic proctitis.
Originally, breast milk is non-allergenic, but proteins from the food the mother eats pass through the breast milk to the baby, causing an allergic reaction in the body.
If the rectum cannot be properly dilated due to this inflammation, the barium enema findings may be similar to those of congenital megacolon.
However, the author concluded that 'no surgery or special treatment is necessary.'


What if this child had been diagnosed with congenital megacolon and underwent surgery based solely on the first barium enema? This question prompted the author, along with his research team, to begin investigating the hospital's past records.
One hundred and five infants underwent barium enema within the first few months of life due to abdominal distension.
After reviewing all of these children's final diagnoses, 51 out of 105 were judged normal, and 54 were diagnosed with suspected congenital megacolon.
After performing anorectal pressure tests and biopsies on the 54 patients, 38 patients, or 70.4 percent of the 54 patients, were ultimately diagnosed with congenital megacolon.
So what happened to the remaining 30 percent? Twelve children were ultimately diagnosed as normal, four were diagnosed with allergic proctitis, and 16 children required no treatment at all.


The consequences of the limitations of knowledge thinking

Until the author completed his residency, it was generally accepted that there were no Type 9 party members in the country.
I learned that in Korea, only type 1a is found.
However, the author became interested in this problem after accidentally discovering type 9 diabetes in a patient.
In particular, even when the blood test came back normal, he persistently did not let go of his suspicious gaze.
This is because data from other countries commonly indicate that type 9 disease is the most common.
The author analyzed 12 patients with diabetes diagnosed at his hospital up to 2004 and announced the following.
“It has been known that type 1a is the most common type of diabetes in our country, but according to our research, there are 2 patients with type 1a, 1 patient with type 1b, 2 patients with type 3, 2 patients with type 9, and 5 patients who have not yet been identified.


“There is a possibility that there are many type 9 cases in our country as well.” The senior doctors at the academic society reacted coldly to this announcement.
Based on past clinical experience, this was unlikely.
But the author persisted until the end.
Ten years later, in 2014, the author's research team published the results of a study of 21 patients with diabetes diagnosed at a single hospital in an academic journal.
As expected, the main types of domestic party members were both Type 1a and Type 9, with 7 and 6 people, respectively.
The stereotypes of the past have been changed through long-term research.
The author emphasizes that we must always be vigilant against the possibility of misdiagnosis due to the limitations of knowledge thinking.


Guardianship and metacognition

In life, more important than IQ or EQ is the ability to see the big picture.
In a way, a higher level of intelligence is contextual intelligence.
In particular, humans gain insight by utilizing their own experiences.
If you can gain foresight based on this, you will have the insight to know what is influencing the present moment.
In other words, contextual intelligence refers to the intellectual ability to derive insight through the synergistic effect of hindsight and foresight.
The author believes that it would be good if contextual intelligence and insight intelligence, as discussed in psychology, were combined.


The essence of insight intelligence is ‘process’.
And the process is context.
The results come out accordingly.
If you only look at the results, you will only repeat the thoughts of vision, knowledge, and satisfaction.

Human insight intelligence blossoms from ‘metacognition.’
Metacognition is the ability to recognize what you know and what you do not know.
For example, in children's learning, children who are good at metacognition can distinguish between what they know and what they don't know, and focus on studying what they lack, achieving results. On the other hand, children who lack metacognition are confused about what to study, and their grades drop.
Metacognition, which is insight intelligence, is also known in many studies to be able to improve through training.
That is, insight develops.
The author emphasizes that, unlike intelligence, insight can be increased through training.