What is Intuition?
Note: Brain has two sides
- slow side:
- Effort, processing, reasoning, conscious thinking
- fast side
- Intuition, feel-based thinking, patterns, unconscious thinking
What information does intuition use?
- past knowledge
- knowledge of the problem/situation
Improve past knowledge → build intuition
Usage
- Use intuition to break down structure/thoughts
- Use slow brain to add details/prove initial intuition
- Note: need to do something to turn intuition into concrete thoughts
How to improve intuition
Steps:
- Read the problem
- Immediately read the solution
- Tie similar problems together Goal:
- Create a mental mapping of problems with solutions
- Or problem components with solution components Note:
- Write down problem components
- Match problem components with solution ideas
- also add in thought provoking questions to why it makes sense Reasoning:
- You will remember better if:
- you come up with the solution yourself
- you spend time on the problem
- you understand why the associations work
Intuition Flowchart
Keep in mind
- also need to practice slow thinking on problems