Mar

18

Yes it certainly can be trained – from a note I wrote on intuition a couple of weeks ago:

One of the biggest mental shifts that your work has given me is how I understand intuition. It stopped feeling mystical or vague and became a real internal compass. I really started to see intuition as lived experience, emotional 'data', pattern recognition, and self-awareness integrating in real time. Paradoxically…this has made me calmer rather than more impulsive. I tend to trust myself more, take better risks, and stay aligned with my process more consistently.

- Toby Donovan, CITI, Director, Commodities Trading

His experience exemplifies what the founder of a large hedge fund said on Thursday. “Your brain is picking something up. Are you in touch with that internal conversation?"

Academic researchers also describe the value of intuition. Valerie Reyna, Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Cornell University, the Director of the Human Neuroscience Institute, and the co-director of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research, directly links intuition to probability, and risk judgment, saying that “intuitive reasoning contributes to performance in hard, fast-paced probability tasks.”

In her fuzzy trace theory, gist-based intuition provides an advanced form of cognition that often outperforms verbatim, analytical processing. She shows how reliance on intuition can grow and yield better decisions than strict adherence to probability calculus, especially when the key is extracting the bottom-line meaning.


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