It’s well bred in some through real experience, and poorly programmed into others by the hearsay and biases of others. It weighs into all our decisions, but the really skilled decision makers know when to use it.

Rather than letting intuition decide the direction, and then run around finding evidence to support it (anyone can do that), great decision makers assemble relevant facts first, play through multiple scenarios with those facts, and finally, at the appropriate time, allow their intuition to have it’s say on which scenario seems to feel the best.

Letting your intuition have the first say becomes the fly in the ointment. The exception to this is of course, in emergencies. For ER staff, and firefighters, intuition rules.

Thanks for the interesting post, my first time reading your stuff, John, I think I’ll be back.

I agree & disagree with you.

I believe most people do NOT have intuition developed anyway.

No they do NOT…

They just think they do…

Their are two types of intuition,
1) Real Intuition
2) Fake Intuition

Real intuition comes from experience but… what you didn’t mention was real intuition can also come from practicing deep meditation…

Where you ignore all your conscious desires & you get away from your ego.

When you meditate very deeply- you are entering your subconscious mind- where all thoughts by you, by other people & other creature is available t you.

You can have any information you desire as long as it is for the good humanity.

You missed a point… Most people have egotistical intuition- which is not really intuition but it is really based upon wild feelings & uncontrolled thoughts in their brain.

Anybody can develop real intuition… Experience definitely helps a lot.. but it DEPENDS…. on the whether your experience is “quality”…

Experience sometimes can not do anything for you…

Their is only so much experience that one can have…Experience does give you valuable insights but it is foolish to think you may have all the insights.

My advice if you want to develop intuition:

1) Meditate- Go deep in into delta brainwaves. When you mediate you WILL develop legitimate intuition because all your ego’s bs will not get through. This is all about the subconscious mind.

2) Get synthetic experience- basically you learn from people who are MASTERS. Observe them. Follow all the insights they learned from trial & error. Don’t make the foolish mistake of trying to become “experienced” first… No… Learn from all the people from valuable quality experience and then try to become “experienced”. Heck you can even learn something from a complete idiot, as long as you learn to listen.

I believe John, really meant that people don’t really have intuition. Instead what they DO have is a very big ego that blocks their intuition. The feelings they get are from their own creation.

Great advice. Until one can differentiate between what their experience tells them and getting caught up in the general hype, it is better to rely on doing proper due diligence before committing to anything that is going to cost money.

And yes, there is a slight rhetorical difference to the way the quote is traditionally presented. But the sentiment is the same…

Thanks for writing, and keeping me on my toes…

Intuition is only useful for the well trained individual (who has seen a particular situation many times).

Using intuition when starting out is like reading instructions from a blank piece of paper… it’s just not going to help.

enjoyed the post as usual John.

regards

Simon

Max