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Intuition gives outlook and insight; it revels in the garden of magical possibilities as if they were real.
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The archetype of the magician
It’s often said that few companies apply the wizard archetype as much as Apple does. In fact, their new products tend to put forward the idea that they change reality. The idea being, that with each new model of cellphone, the consumer will be able to do what they’ve always dreamed of.
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The reflective mind is constantly learning
Philosopher, Walter A. Shelburne wrote a book entitled Mythos and Logos in the Thought of Carl Jung. Without a doubt, the image that stands out is that of the magician. Shelburne describes this archetype as a humble personality capable of accepting that they don’t know everything. They ac...
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What are archetypes?
An archetype defines a series of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns that guide our way of processing and acting in the world. Carl Jung developed this theoretical approach within his analytical psychology. He proposed that human psychological development isn’t a blank ...
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From introspection to innovation
Arthur C. Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The archetype of the magician starts from the same idea. It’s related to the magical and esoteric because it starts from introspection from which almost impossible and challenging ideas are b...
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The magical "intuition" for hard subjects we notice in people like Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman is owed to their extensive knowledge base they could draw from.
The broader and more varied the situations you need to perform in, the broader your knowledge base should ...
The mysticism around ideation
In Greek mythology, there were the muses, who provided inspiration for creative ideas.
Now, even if we stopped believing in muses, we still think about the process of producing ideas as something magical, that we can cannot explain or control.
Defining intuition
The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor – to see; intuition is thus often invoked to explain how the mind can “see” answers to problems or decisions in the absence of explicit reasoning – a “gut reaction”.
But intuition need not refer to some magical process by which ...
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