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How To Be More Intuitive
Steve Gillman
Have you ever used your
intuition to solve problems? Can you trust your intuition? Can you
improve it?
What Is Intuition?
Intuition is simply a feeling , sense, or hunch based on information not
available to your conscious mind. Some say this comes from the ether or
wherever, but I'm content to believe that our minds have a lot more
going on in there than we know.
How can Gary Kasparov win a chess game against a computer that can
calculate positions many moves further ahead than he can? By using his
intuitive grasp of the game. His experience allows him to combine
analysis with a "sense" of which move is best.
Intuition can also warn us. My wife and I felt we shouldn't get on that
bus in South America. We knew crowded busses were prime hunting grounds
for pickpockets, and we saw the drunk man bumping into people. We didn't
think about these things consciously, but they registered in our minds,
and warned us. We ignored our intuition, and I was robbed.
Of course, you can have a hunch for irrelevant reasons too. If you were
hit by a taxi as a child, you might have "intuitive" hunches not to get
into taxis for the rest of your life. So how do you know when to trust
your intuition?
Three Simple Steps To Better Intuition
1. Watch for it. You'll have hunches and ideas more often. I bought a
conversion van, and now I see them all over. Have you had a similar
experience? The same process will happen if you watch for your intuition
- you'll start to see more of it.
2. Question it. If I had asked myself why I felt bad about that bus, I
might have thought, "Oh yeah, crowded busses are a bad idea. I know
that." Try to see in which areas your intuition works best, or not at
all. If, for example, your hunches about people are always wrong, don't
follow them.
3. Give it good information. Your skill, knowledge and experience
determine the potential effectiveness of your intuition. A weak chess
player will never intuitively beat that computer. So learn enough about
a subject, before you expect any good hunches. Remember the programmer's
maxim: garbage in - garbage out.
Do these three things and you'll have more useful intuition more often.
Steve Gillman writes
on many self help topics including boosting brainpower, losing weight,
meditation, habits of mind, creative problem solving, learning
gratitude, generating luck and anything related to self improvement.
You'll find more at
www.SelfImprovementNow.com
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