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Post by Darius on Dec 2, 2011 13:14:33 GMT
I trust my intuition a lot, and the more I do it, the better I get at knowing when something is right. How much do you trust your intuition?
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Beau
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Post by Beau on Dec 2, 2011 15:04:36 GMT
Define intuition.
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roadwarrior
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Post by roadwarrior on Dec 16, 2011 3:02:13 GMT
"Gut feeling", your subconscious.
Nothing magical about it. Trusting your non-verbal subconscious is a skill and the only way skills can be developed is by practice. Detectives play hunches and often are served by developing that skill. Guys who like to bet on ponies using hunches often end up poor because their subconscious has as little idea of who will will as their conscious. They should just play the odds.
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Post by timo on Dec 16, 2011 7:13:29 GMT
I don't trust it at all. If something seems obvious to me, I'm probably more likely to reexamine it and try to poke holes in it, if anything. The reason I think this way is that I realized some time ago that my intuition is based largely on experiences that are pretty specific to me. Some of those intuitive beliefs have to do with the fact that I was raised by parents who grew up very religious and very poor and among people whose parents came from similar backgrounds (though in a place where a lot of us, my family included, had done a great deal of moving up in the world). Some of them have to do with the fact that I was raised in a place where my friends and relatives carried knives and guns. I could go on.
I credit the experience of attending university for disabusing me of a lot of things I might have continued to just accept as true intuitively, especially with respect to sexuality--things that are frankly embarrassing to recall these days. The long and short of it is that I dealt with people that had different perspectives and was forced to reconsider what I had come to believe in light of these new views. I mean, we used to just accept that gay dudes were less than men. I still have tracks that I recorded where I'm calling other rappers fags and batty boys. It's cringe-inducing for me now. That kind of pose is just hard to maintain when you actually make friends with openly gay people, and in my case learn that some childhood friends are gay.
So yeah, I say don't trust your instincts.
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Post by roadwarrior on Dec 16, 2011 21:44:53 GMT
www.oprah.com/spirit/The-Science-of-Intuition"You're faced with a difficult decision, and suddenly you feel the right answer in your gut. But while intuition may seem to arise from some mysterious inner source, it's actually a form of unconscious reasoning—one that's rooted in the way our brains collect and store information. As you accumulate knowledge—whether it's about what books your spouse likes or how to play chess—you begin to recognize patterns. Your brain unconsciously organizes these patterns into blocks of information—a process the late social scientist Herbert Simon, PhD, called chunking. Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that's what we regard as a flash of intuition. more....." www.popsci.com/laura-allen/article/2008-09/it-pays-trust-your-instinct"Whether you call it a hunch or vibes, a reckoning or a feeling in your bones, humans know the power of a nagging suspicion. Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink stands as testament to the fact that snap decisions often turn out much smarter than those following a thorough think. Now, neuroscientists say they’ve not only proven what they call “subliminal learning” scientifically, but have found the brain area involved. The researchers, who are based at University College London, set up a computer game in which study subjects could win money. Players saw strange, complex symbols on a computer screen, and were told to predict which symbols consistently led to payout, and which led to penalty. Yet it was impossible to tell the symbols apart. The researchers designed them to look, to the conscious mind, identical. “Just follow your gut feelings,” the game instructions coached, “and you will win, and avoid losing, a lot of pounds!” Despite the challenge, subjects did manage to learn how to win—guided, apparently, by their instinct. The team then measured brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, as subjects went through the experiment. What lit up was a structure called the ventral striatum. Located near the center-front of the brain, this region has surfaced in many other studies as a major player in learning motivated by reward. The notion that our subconscious can drive smart decisions is nothing new to non-scientists and scientists alike. In 1911, seminal animal intelligence researcher Edward Lee Thorndike had a hunch that if dogs and cats could learn without reasoning, so could humans. But remarkably, it took nearly a century to act on those suspicions—or rather, to design an experiment that could adequately test it."
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