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Is the referenced book useful if I'd like to know more about the subject?
There are a couple chapters in there on the subject, but it's probably not the best book specifically for that subject. I haven't read it yet, but "Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis " looks pretty good. One of the people behind the method wrote several books for a general audience and one of them, "The Power of Intuition" (not what it sounds like) has a few tips on how to learn from experts:
There's more, but I don't want to quote too much... One of the other tips is to ask how a novice would approach things vs how they would. He also recommends avoiding asking for general theories, the experts may not really be able to describe how/what they do without having a story to guide them.
Somewhat. It's a comprehensive study with a lot of good facts on expertise. But the the method is something I came up with and haven't seen elsewhere. So you may have to spend a significant chunk of time thinking about the implications of these facts in order to derive something useful.