IntuitionWritten by Susan Dunn
In recent years intuition has emerged from obscurity, even suspicion, to be honored as valuable life tool that it is.What exactly is intuition? According to Merriam-Webster it's quick and ready insight; immediate apprehension or cognition; power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. According to Intuition magazine online, it's a "natural mental faculty, a key element in creative process, a means of discovery, problem solving, and decision making." Remember those math problems you got correct answer for, but you didn't get full credit because you couldn't show your work? Intuition isn't some mystical talent; it's something we all have and can develop more of. Where does intuition come from? In their book, _A General Theory of Love, authors Drs. Lewis, Amini, and Lannon agree that we acquire complicated knowledge we can't describe, explain, or recognize. They cite researchers Knowlton, Mangels, and Squire, who asked subjects to predict weather in a simple computer model. They designed experiment so that even though cues looked worthless they did relate to outcome but relationship between cues and effects it was way too difficult for logic to unravel in even smartest person. No one was able to figure it out, but that still got better at this system they couldn't understand or describe! After just 50 trials, average subject was right 70% of time, which means some were doing far better than that. What they were doing was gradually developing a feel for situation, getting gist of it.
| | Define Yourself!Written by Susan Dunn, M.A., Coach
Every time you choose to be with someone, you're defining who you are. People have emotions and emotions are contagious. How you conduct yourself and what values you live by define your culture, just as they do other person's. Businesses have cultures and so do groups, committees, clubs, organizations and any situation where two or more people are together.The most important influence on you is you. You spend more time listening to your own self-talk than to anyone else, so you need to make sure it's kind of culture you want to be in. Is it one of your values to put down other people? If not, why would you then do it to yourself? After that, people in your work and personal life will reflect what kind of environment you've chosen to be in, and what sort of culture you want to live in. Since emotions are contagious, people you're around
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