Intuition is good, even better than you thought, because at the opposite of intuition, called logic, which only have one thread at a time to think about things occurred, instead intuition has thousands more, for example:
you know this is an angry face in one second, but can you tell me how many is:
17 × 24
This is an example from Thinking, Fast and Slow, book of Daniel Kahneman, who was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, explain why intuition is such a good thing for humankind:
Why is it so difficult for us to think statistically? We we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1(the logic part of our brain) is not designed to do
Geoffrey Hinton said in an interview by Andrew Ng:
And I have a very good principle for helping people keep at it, which is either your intuitions are good or they’re not. If your intuitions are good, you should follow them and you’ll eventually be successful. If your intuitions are not good, it doesn’t matter what you do.
I agree with Geoffrey Hinton and many others:
The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. Steve Jobs
instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. Nikola Tesla
If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition. Jeff Bezos
Yes, intuition is good, and ‘even better than you thought’, my question is why someone have good intuition than the others, and how to strengthen intuition to make your intuition outstanding, I have three answers:
1. Know all the flaws of intuition. Intuition surly is not perfect, so knowing all the flaws of intuition can help you distinguish the problems which can be used by intuition and others by logic, this video can help you:
2. Training your intuition. You can find many articles similar as 18 Ways To Strengthen Your Intuition, try them one by one, harder and harder, even more, in Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable, he mentioned how human can get a new sense by training:
In 2004, Udo Wachter, an IT manager in Germany, took the guts of a small digital compass and soldered it into a leather belt. He added 13 miniature piezoelectric vibrators, like the ones that vibrate your smartphone, and buried them along the length of the belt. Finally he hacked the electronic compass so that instead of displaying north on a circular screen, it vibrated different parts of the belt when it was clasped into a circle. The section of the circle “facing” north would always vibrate. When Udo put the belt on, he could feel northness on his waist. Within a week of always wearing the north belt, Udo had an unerring sensation of “north.” It was unconscious. He could point in the direction without thinking. He just knew. After several weeks he acquired an additional heightened sense of location, of where he was in a city, as if he could feel a map. Here the quantification from digital tracking was subsumed into a wholly new bodily sensation. In the long term this is the destiny of many of the constant streams of data flowing from our bodily sensors. They won’t be numbers; they will be new senses.
3. Cognize complicated conceptions. For example: ‘tacit knowledge’, ‘zen’, ‘objectivism’, ‘Krishnamurti’s notebook’, ‘first principle’ and many more, all these conceptions are hard to understand but tremendous valuable, none of them should be considered as right or wrong, but all of them could be dangerous, so be careful
