On cultivating intuition

Here’s a cheat sheet to help you tell the difference. Impulsive thought: Look at that shiny thing! I want that thing now! Intuitive thought: If I can block out all the shiny distractions and slow down a little, I can perceive an interesting, glimmery possibility, and something about it just feels right. I don’t have to do anything about it right no

differentiate between your beliefs that are merely cultural constraints and those that are actual truths. And between the trustworthy voice of your intuition and the persuasive pronouncements of your fears.

You can reprogram your intuition. 2. Any misalignment between your intuition and reason is an opportunity to create within yourself a new way of seeing things. 3. Don’t expect it all to come at once, in real time. Developing mental images means reorganizing the connections between your neurons. This process is organic and has its own pace. 4. Don’t

We need to ask ourselves whether our fear is truly our intuition or is it born from social conditioning? This approach asks people to not blindly trust intuition, but really get to know it—make sure intuitiveness is grounded in emotional experience, as well as what is really happening.

Well, as it turns out, we each possess a skill for doing this: intuition. Sadly, trusting your intuition just doesn’t feel as practical as following a best practice, so that’s our next challenge. We’re about to meet some of the world’s top thinkers and do something that might seem crazy at first. We’re going to turn intuition into a tangible weapon