What Is Intuition?
Intuition = your brain accepts a concept as a fundamental truth
As an example, think of concepts you’ve learned and mastered in the past, and see how now they are just second nature to your brain. A very simple example would be 2+2 - you do not even have to think about how to calculate that, so addition is an intuitive concept for you.
On the flip-side, an unintuitive concept is one that your brain “rejects”, something that requires some effort for you to understand and learn.
34
479 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
A few good tips for learning hard concepts.
“
Similar ideas to What Is Intuition?
When Intuition Is Not Helpful
When you say that "your intuition told you to do X" but you haven't really done any risk-benefit analysis, it means you haven't really thought through the decision, you just want to do something and you use intuition as an excuse.
Intuition is most helpful when it is pointi...
System 1
The focus of this system is:
- To maintain a representation of your world. It is an automatically learned skill. For example, driving your car along a familiar route requires little mental effort and is intuitive.
- To update a model of your world. It is from...
What a principle is
It's a fundamental truth that you can use to build the foundation of your life. A principle is not an opinion or a belief. A principle is a matter of cause and effect.
Principles can become personal guidelines. And the point of having principles is that it shifts you from short-te...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates