Intuition: The Art of Controlling and Mastering Your Intuitive Skills

By Celesta Kopps

The following topics are included in this 2-book combo:



Book 1: There are some facts and theories about intuition that ever person should know about. In the first chapter of this book, we will touch on eight facts that need to be considered when studying the subject of intuition.


In the second chapter, we will specifically talk about a mother’s intuition. Many people have attested to the fact that mothers typically have an extra layer of hyper-senses that help them protect their children from danger or suspect if they are up to no good.


In the last two chapters of this brief book, the important role of allowing your intuition to affect your decisions will be addressed. There are hidden powers that can help your life, and there are dangers that can completely ruin it.



Book 2: Are you more of an analytical thinker or more of an intuitive thinker?


In this short, comprehensive book, we will talk about the differences, the extremes, the balance between the two, some thoughts related to it, and show you a small test as well, so you can see for yourself in which direction your life has been going.


Aside from that, we will dive into the blurry line between thinking and feeling, and the overlap that often takes place. We will also be more specific as to what intuition can mean to your marriage success and the relationships you have. Last but not least, intuition is somehow linked to dreams, so dreaming will be the final topic of this book.


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• Language: English
• Publisher: Anonymous
• Release date: Nov 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220224758

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Intuition

Chapter 1: The Top 8 Realities About Intuition

The fact that we hacked together machines to beat us in a bunch of small corners of our own game proves, if nothing else, that we can hack our own intuitions, also.

1. Intuition Is Highly Efficient-- if You Don't Consider It Too Much

A body of research exposes that intuition can be not only faster than reflection but also more accurate.

We're pretty good at judging people based on impressions, thin slices of experience varying from a peek of a photo to a five-minute interaction, and consideration can be not only extraneous but intrusive. In one study of the capability she dubbed thin slicing, the late psychologist Nalini Ambady asked individuals to watch quiet 10-second videos of teachers and to rate the trainer's overall efficiency. Their rankings correlated highly with students' end-of-semester ratings. Another set of individuals had to count backwards from a thousand by nines as they watched the clips, inhabiting their conscious working memory. Their ratings were just as accurate, showing the instinctual nature of the social processing.

Seriously, another group was asked to spend a minute documenting reasons for their judgment, before giving the ranking. Precision dropped considerably. Ambady presumed that deliberation focused them on vivid but misleading hints, like certain gestures or utterances, instead of letting the complicated interaction of subtle signals form a holistic impression. She found similar disturbance when participants watched 15-second clips of sets of people and judged whether they were complete strangers, good friends, or dating partners.

Other research shows we're better at identifying deception and sexual preference from thin slices when we depend on intuition rather than reflection. It's just as if you are driving a standard transference, says Judith Hall, a psychologist at Northeastern University, and if you start thinking about it too much, you can't remember what you're doing. However, if you go on automatic pilot, you are fine. Much of our social life is a lot like that.

Thinking way too much can also harm our ability to form preferences. College students' ratings of strawberry jams and college courses aligned better with specialists' viewpoints when the students weren't asked to analyze their rationale. And people made car-buying choices that were both objectively better and more personally satisfying when asked to concentrate on their feelings instead of on details, but only if the choice was complicated-- when they had a lot of info to process.

Intuition's unique powers are unleashed only in certain circumstances. In one study, individuals finished a battery of 8 tasks, including four that tapped reflective thinking (discerning rules, comprehending vocabulary) and four that tapped intuition and creativeness (creating new products or figures of speech). Then they ranked the degree to which they had used intuition ( suspicions, inklings, my heart). Use of their gut hurt their performance on the first four tasks, as expected, and helped them on the rest. At times, the heart is smarter than the head.

2. We Get Too Deeply Attached to Instinctual Beliefs

Once an instinct hits, we hold on to it in spite of the dangers. Intuition can, for example, result in all sorts of cognitive and social predispositions, like the anchoring effect (where choices are swayed by the first piece of info thrown at us) and racial bias. Even in areas where the heart should rule, like romance, it can be unaware. In a classic study, when guys on a bridge were halted by an appealing woman and asked to finish a survey, they were more likely to try to call her afterward if it was a creepy suspension bridge, misattributing psychological stimulation to sexual attraction.

Our dreams, those unwilled visions of the night, hold a powerful aura of truth we cannot quite snuff out. Many people report they're more likely to change their travel plans if they dreamed about a plane crash than if the government announced an actual travel caution. And test-takers can't shake the first instinct fallacy. Three in four university students reported that when reconsidering a response on a test, their initial choice will generally end up being right. But when eliminate marks on actual exams were evaluated, the reverse was true: Twice as many changed answers went from wrong to right as right to wrong.

In general, says psychologist Sascha Topolinski of the University of Perfume in Germany, "intuition is something psychological that makes