I don't deny that Taleb brings some great insights, but specifically to the phenomenon you describe, a more relevant book could be Kahneman "Thinking, fast and slow".
The "gut feeling" is framed as the result of expertise + many hours of practice with short feedback loops. Intuition is very valuable and esteemed, much like a chess Grandmaster can say "Mat in 4" just by glance at a game, where you would need many hours of thinking to arrive to, at best, a similar conclusion.
Thinking slow is where we start when we learn a skill (from learning to count when we are toddler, to learning to code, play piano or chess, or practice medecine). It is a conscious, slow, energy-hungry process that leave us tired. After many hours of practice, and, importantly, short feedback loops to feed our internal pattern-matching algorithm, we start to "Think fast".
Thinking fast is quick, easy, not easily described by words as a lot of it happens below consciousness. It is very efficient but also error-prone, as it is based on heuristics. A lot of cognitive bias come from it.
The "gut feeling" is framed as the result of expertise + many hours of practice with short feedback loops. Intuition is very valuable and esteemed, much like a chess Grandmaster can say "Mat in 4" just by glance at a game, where you would need many hours of thinking to arrive to, at best, a similar conclusion.
Thinking slow is where we start when we learn a skill (from learning to count when we are toddler, to learning to code, play piano or chess, or practice medecine). It is a conscious, slow, energy-hungry process that leave us tired. After many hours of practice, and, importantly, short feedback loops to feed our internal pattern-matching algorithm, we start to "Think fast".
Thinking fast is quick, easy, not easily described by words as a lot of it happens below consciousness. It is very efficient but also error-prone, as it is based on heuristics. A lot of cognitive bias come from it.