Intuition In Decision-Making
Furthermore, in decision-making, intuition is important as this is based on your experience!!!!
"...we make decisions based on who and where we are, and what the norms around suggest are the right and wrong ways of acting..."
Elisabeth Anderson as quoted by Yancey Strickler 2019
. In decision-making, rapid instinctive decision-making is not traditionally accepted as the best way to make decisions, ie
"...our present business culture believes quick decisions are bad decisions, and that the way to run a big company is to amass data, run the models, do the due diligence and knockout as many imponderables as possible. Instead we need to reaffirm the value of rapid judgments and recognize those styles of decision-making - one based on massing of overt, consciously gathered information and the other based on experience and unconscious thinking - are appropriate at different times..."
Malcolm Gladwell as quoted by Helen Trinca, 2007a
Intuition is
"...considered a highly individualised set of mental models that we develop through personal experience..."
Seph Fontane Pennock, 2023d
Or can be described as
"...Compelling human ability to judge stimulus properties based on information that is activated in memory are not consciously retrieved......is a sense of knowing about fully understanding how one knows......result from rapid associative, an unconscious information processes..."
A. Bolte et al as quoted by Seph Fontane Pennock, 2023d
Intuition can sometimes be called gut feel, insights, hunches, inner voice, follow your heart, etc.
Thus intuition processes start in the unconscious system of processing with outcomes arising at the threshold of conscious perception.
It involves quick decision-making that is a product of your unconscious, established mental models.
Generally used when time doesn't allow for deeper analysis and/or you are very familiar with the topic.
"...intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look..."
Jonas Salk as quoted by Seph Fontane Pennock, 2023d
NB Intuition is like a muscle, the more you exercise, the stronger it will be. It needs to be regularly practised so that you can learn to recognise its presence and verify the accuracy of intuitive decisions through reflection and analysis.
It is thought that the heart and stomach play central roles in intuition, ie the heart and stomach may receive and respond to intuitive information before the brain. This has been called heart-based psychophysiological coherence-building.
Benefits of intuition
"...Shown to result in deep are self-awareness, improved emotional balance and mental clarity, more effective decision-making and problem-solving, greater confidence in professional practice, and improve quality of relationships..."
D. Childre et al as quoted by Elaine Houston, 2023
"...an intuitive choice is a choice that, with or without fact-checking, feels intuitively right to the person..."
Elaine Houston, 2023
"...learning connect with - and trust - your intuition can help you gain confidence and clarity, making decisions more often and more quickly, creatively solve problems, and feel more inspired, fulfilled and uplifted. The more you trust and use your intuition, the more quickly and consistently you will be able to connect with it..."
Elaine Houston, 2023
Common Fear
A common fear amongst people is that they will make the wrong choice when trusting their intuition.
"...rationally weighing up all the pros and cons, asking others for advice, and relying on facts provides the illusion of certainty and control. In some cases, following one's intuition means one acts contrary to what facts and other people say. In a society that is knowledge-and ratio-driven, where fact-checking and hard evidence is the norm......following is one's intuition is a courageous act and that fear is a natural part of the process of building one's intuition..."
Elaine Houston, 2023
Simple question
"...What is your gut telling you?..."
Seph Fontane Pennock, 2023d
Answering this question can help in a couple of ways
- if undecided on your decision, listening to your gut can serve as a reliable circuit-breaker
- if you are overly analytical and/or 'going around in circles', using intuitive thinking can bring clarity.
Summary
"...Intuition is like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it will be......a structured way to regularly practice using their intuition that they can learn to recognise how it presents itself and verify the accuracy of their intuitive decisions through reflection and analysis..."
Seph Fontane Pennock, 2023d