Understanding Intuition

Introduction

Laymen explanation

In whatever profession you are, if you have encountered day to day life problems regularly and see some person as your icon because he gives you solution or direction to solve the problem and moreover he is using his intuition to do this. It is really a matter of respect. Do you also wish to get this level of wisdom or do you think that they are gifted persons and so you can't achieve it? This article helps to understand this.

Technical explanation

As per wiki, Intuition is Is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning.

Important points

• • Intuition is regarded as highest form of intelligence.

  • It is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about effortlessly understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded.

  • There is a scientific approach to be intuitive

Reliability of intuition

By definition, intuition should be reliable. If a person has not the ability of intuition, then his intuition will be a pretend. Without reliability, intuition is meaningless.

Science of intuition

Intuition is about ability to effortlessly understand something in various perspective. The question here is "how such people get this ability"?

Intuition refers people who are already intellectually curious, rigorous in their pursuit of knowledge, and willing to challenge their own assumptions.

If all you do is sit in a chair and trust your intuition, you are not exercising much intelligence. But if you take a deep dive into a subject and study numerous possibilities, you are exercising intelligence when your gut instinct tells you what is - and isn't - important.

A powerful case study of intuition

Sometimes, a corporate mandate or group-think or your desire to produce a certain outcome can cause your rational mind to go in the wrong direction. At times like these, it is intuition that holds the power to save you. That "bad feeling" gnawing away at you is your intuition telling you that no matter how badly you might wish to talk yourself into this direction, it is the wrong way to go.

Smart people listen to those feelings. And the smartest people among us - the ones who make great intellectual leaps forward - cannot do this without harnessing the power of intuition.

Intuition versus guesses

Intuition without knowledge/experience is just guessing.

Intuition versus instinct

Intuition is a feeling of knowing that is a combination of our ancestors’ experiences and our own experiences.

Instinct is An innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain stimuli.

Instinct should be explained with evolutionary theory. However, Intuition is dependent on experience which happens in the person's life.

Intuition and observation

They are very much related.

Intuition relies on personal experience and experience relies on observations in person's life. So, to get great intuition, a right set of prior observations is must. These observations enable person to see the thing in multiple perspective in quicker manner.

Nurturing of Intuition

If a person gets the ability of Intuition, he needs to nurture it. Intuition is not eternal. In other words, it is not guaranteed that Intuition will be reliable in future as well, if it is reliable in present. So, his decisions will more often become wrong. So, how to nurture it?

As we know that Intuition is dependent on experience. So, to sustain Intuition, person needs to constantly thrive towards enriching his experience and observations.

Reference

Personal experience

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucekasanoff/2017/02/21/intuition-is-the-highest-form-of-intelligence/#516575893860

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reliability-intuition-wayne-borchardt

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-intuition-and-instinct

http://www.cliftresearch.com/clift-notes/2015/3/11/information-without-knowledge-is-just-guessing