How to Develop Intuition Power
How is it possible for Gary Kasparov win a chess game against
a computer that can calculate positions many moves further ahead
than he can? By using his intuition power. His experience allows
him to combine analysis with a "sense" of which move
is best.
What Is Intuition?
Intuition power is possible, and it isn't anything psychic.
Intuition is simply a feeling , sense, or hunch based on information
not available to your conscious mind. Some may 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.
Intuition can give us insight, generate new ideas, and can
also warn us. My wife and I felt we shouldn't get on that bus
in South America. We knew crowded busses were full of pickpockets,
and we saw that man bumping into people. We didn't consider these
things consciously, but they registered in our minds, and warned
us. We ignored our intuition, and I was robbed.
Unfortunately, you can have a hunch for irrelevant reasons
too. If you were hit by a taxi as a child, you might have "intuitive"
hunches to avoid taxis for the rest of your life. So how do you
know when to trust your intuition? And how do you have it more
often?
Three Steps to Intuition Power
1. Look for it. I bought a conversion van, and now
I seem to 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. In a real sense, you'll have
more intuitive hunches, because when you don't notice them, they
may as well not exist.
2. Question it. If I had asked myself why I felt uncomfortable
about that bus, I might have thought, "Oh yeah, crowded
busses are a bad idea. I know that." Notice where your intuition
works better or worse. If, for example, your hunches about people
are always wrong, don't follow them.
3. Give it good information. Your, knowledge, skill,
and experience determine the effectiveness of your intuition.
A weak chess player can 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 develop your intuition power
to a higher level. Really, we probably all have many intuitive
feelings already - why not make them useful?
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