What is the Most Effective Use of Intuition?

Don’t be Misguided by Your Intuition

Learn the Key to Effective Use of Intuition

We come to learn various skills through experience.  As we have experiences and gain immediate feedback, we get better at the skill.  If we continue the experience often enough, we become experts.  Now, that is a high level of brilliance, isn’t it? Why bring this up when talking about intuition?  Well, the most effective use of intuition is when it is based on a high level of experience.  Let me offer an example.  Mothers often have good intuition as to the needs of their children.  Insight is gained from the constant contact with the child when it is young.  The recording part of a mother’s brain is picking up, perhaps subconsciously, perhaps not, over and over, on the actions of the baby.  Those recordings are developing a skill that can read the child and know the immediate needs or actions of the child before the child expresses them.  The child’s actions become intuitive to the mother.  Now, I would have you consider that this intuition is based on a lot of experience: touching, listening, watching, holding, nurturing, etc.  So, when the mother senses something taking place in the life of the child, chances are it is pretty accurate.

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Now, here is where I will throw you a curve.  If dear mom picks up a newspaper and gets a similar intuitive feeling about the headlines in the business section on a company and its stock.  Would it be a good choice to place your life savings in that stock?  Well, probably not.  Only if the mom had an MBA in economics had interviewed the CEO or some other employee and had a good knowledge about the product, the customers and the general business environment.   Even then, no offense to Mom in particular or the female gender, I would be hesitant to risk more than a small portion of my hard earned dollar.  The issue is that when we get these intuitions that are tied in some fashion to emotions, in areas where we have no experience and we act on them, we typically only remember the times they work.  Often, our success is not better than making a decision based on the outcome of the flip of a coin.  Yet, we continue to act or take advice on our own or the intuitions of others.

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Action Time!

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When dealing with relationships, if you get an intuitive feeling for someone when you first meet, try recording in your journal your emotions and see if you can track the experiences you have had that may have drawn you to that insight.  If you keep an ongoing record, is there a pattern that forms about your insights?  Is it based on the nature of the people you come into contact with or your interpretation of them or perhaps both?  How does your intuition pan out?  In what areas of this relational intuition would you like to experience growth?  Where would it be wise not to transfer decisions in other areas based on intuition? I would look forward to hearing about your experience and observations.  You are the scientist and the experiment!

 

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