intuition
“Notice also how the initial knowing comes from a place deep inside your body, but the negotiation happens in your intellect. This is a significant distinction: knowing with the body and thinking with the intellect.”
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
Toolkit to activate excitement:
Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
... See moreWe undoubtedly have in our brains some finer fibers which enable us to perceive truths which we could not attain through logical deductions, and which it would be futile to attempt to achieve through any wilful effort of thinking."
The fastest decisions I’ve ever made are ones where I was confident in my taste; the slowest decisions I’ve made (or have yet to make) are ones where I question it. (And the latter tends to be a symptom of trying to overintellectualize my taste, to compare it to others’ taste, to judge my own taste — which defeats its purpose.)
taste as an expression of intuition (?)
Intuition may propose a way, but does not assure right action or even accurate perception. This we know from any of our immediate, self-evident moves such as falling in love with the wrong person, making false accusations and issuing rash dismissals, and arriving at those sure self-diagnoses of medical conditions that prove wholly hypochondriacal.
... See more"I worship at the alter of intention and obstacle." — Aaron Sorkin
For most people the Daemon can only communicate via images or hunches. The images are shown in dreams and the hunches are those ill-defined sensations that suggest that one course of action is a good or a bad thing.
