Sunday, September 21, 2008

Analysis Vs. Intuition (Fact Vs Feeling)

In life, the complexity is overwhelming. We can try to impose some logical cognitative order, but there too future gets difficult to discern beyond the immediately near time frame. Intuition is a way of allowing your brain to process a myriad of inputs without imposing artificial rules or constraints that can affect the outcome.

That said, most people use "intuition" as a lazy way to avoid any application of critical thinking. :)


Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
- Title of a book

Thus, we make our decisions in three ways or their combinations:
  • Brain - analysis, analytics
  • Gut - intuition, gut feeling
  • Heart - emotions
The challenge is knowing when to run with the numbers and when to run with your guts.

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