Developing intuition starts by realizing you have it already. Intuition is just your mind using more than what you are consciously aware of. But can you really depend on these hunches? If so then how can it be improved?
Developing Intuition In Three Steps
1. Recognize it and encourage it.
2. Study it to make it more trustworthy.
3. You need to feed it facts that it can base hunches on.
A chess champion will admit that a computer can calculate chess positions many moves further ahead than he can. His experience allows him to combine analysis with a “sense” of which move is best. Try to find areas in your own life where you intuitively operate.
Of course, intuition is also a warning device. An example of looking at facts and situations, drawing a hunch occurred when a husband and wife took a trip. They felt that they shoudn’t get on that bus in Ecuador. Crowded busses are prime locations for pickpockets. A drunk man was bumping into people repeatedly. The didn’t consciously pay attention, but these things registered in their minds, warning them. They felt “something isn’t right here.” When they ignored their intuition, and were robbed.
Possibly you know of someone who has these feelings all the time, maybe you’ve experienced them. Just by identifying such situations and confirming or recognizing some pattern trains your brain to see more of this in the future. The same process will happen if you watch for your intuition – you’ll start to see more of it.
Unfortunately, a strong hunch can be for irrelevant reasons too. It is sometimes difficult to trust and depend on your intuition even when people learn to recognize it and encourage it.
Take A Closer Look at Your Intuition
Start questioning your hunches. If we had asked why we felt bad about that bus, it may have occurred to us, “Oh yeah, crowded busses are a bad idea – we know that.” Study your strong feeling about that taxi, and you might say, “Oh, it’s just my fear of yellow taxis.” Get in the habit of paying attentionto and studying your intuitive feelings.
Where does your intuition work best? If you’re always right about your intuitive stock picks, give a little credence to them. On the other hand, if your hunches about people are usually wrong, don’t follow them. Just pay attention more, and you’ll be developing intuition about your intuition.
Give Your Intution Good Information
Your skill, knowledge and experience determine the potential effectiveness of your intuition. No weak chess player will never intuitively beat that computer, like Kasparov can. Learn enough about a subject, before expecting good hunches about it – or before trusting the hunches. Work in the area you want more intuition in. When enough information is in your mind, it will go to work for you with or without your conscious participation, so feed it well.
Recognize your intuition and you’ll have hunches and ideas more often. These steps outlined are a simple formula for developing intuition.
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