intuition

If intuition means rapidly processing multiple information streams to reach a conclusion below the threshold of consciousness, then yes, women’s brains appear better equipped for this. If intuition means having some magical access to truth beyond reason, then the neuroscience offers no support for that claim.

Years ago, I studied shamanism with a Lakota medicine woman. She said that the difference between science and shamanism is that a shaman doesn’t care how something works, only that it does. Science often doesn’t believe something works until it understands how.

You have to feed your gut a steady diet of experiments, so it can guide your intuition. If everything you do is downstream from quantification, you're going to be locked inside a very narrow box.

First listen, then act, then understand.

What we call intuition or gut feeling is often precisely this: knowledge the body holds that has not passed through consciousness, but exists nonetheless, even though it has not yet found language.

We have learned not to trust intuition until we can explain it.