What’s the biggest unmet need that most Intuitives face?
While discussing the unique needs of Intuitives – or people who use intuition has their primary way of learning information – the same need pops up over and over gain. It’s what we at Personality Hacker call the Greatest Unmet Need of Intuitives. It’s actually pretty simple and very easy, and maybe because of that it’s importance is diminished and gets neglected.
What is that need? Highly abstract, conceptual conversation. It’s conversation that goes beyond the every day norm of chit-chat and ‘catching up’. Subjects like philosophy, ethics, science, idea-generation and possibilities thinking about the future and the meaning of reality. While it may feel great to an Intuitive that engage in this kind of conversation, they may not realize it’s a basic need.
This kind of conversation does two things for Intuitives:
1. It gives them energy, amps us up, and helps them see possibilities they hadn’t considered before. It’s like food for the mind, or mental calories, and for those who lead with intuition it may be necessary for basic psychological health.
2. It gives them freedom. It’s not always easy to find another person who will go down these rabbit holes with you conversationally, and sometimes the perpetual searching for it makes one feel like a freak. When an Intuitive finds someone who will do a ‘deep dive’, there’s an entire world of permission that opens up. Permission to think outside the box, to consider new ways of solving challenges and of thinking. This permission is extremely freeing, and it’s important to have that sense of permission.
One of the great run-off benefits of these conversations is the cross pollination ideas. If ideas are a technology, then intuitive conversation becomes a laboratory. The more they cross pollinate each other’s ideas, the more sophisticated they become so when they’re brought to the world they’re more fleshed out, useful, and a true gift.
If you’re an Intuitive, keep in mind that this kind of conversation isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.
To know definitively if you’re an Intuitive learning style, take the Genius Style Assessment. If you turn out as a Perspectives or Exploration genius, you’re an Intuitive.
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So I’m an ESFP and I’m surrounded by Intuitives in my life. If this is a basic need for my friends and family, how can I learn to engage in these conversations well? Do I, as an ESFP, even have the capacity to engage in such complex conversations that would satisfy, say, an INTJ? Or is this something that I am to be excluded from? I’m just super interested in meeting the needs of my loved ones and they are mostly INTJs, INFPs and ENFPs.
I am looking for similar information. I’m an ISFJ with a high level of self-awareness. I’ve been studying type for several years now and have been actively pursuing personal growth since my teens. I’m in my early 50’s now and have now tapped into my inferior extraverted intution. I find myself drawn more to rationals and idealists than to guardians and artisans. I love challenging and thought-provoking conversations, exploring new subjects, and research. But I’m wondering how much I can actually be helpful to intuitives. My perception may be that the relationships work very well. However, that may be true only for me, not for the intuitives. I think that I’m rather unusual for a sensor, which makes me a curiosity to intuitives. I’m willing to stretch considerably. But it’s not the same as being another intuitive. I’m highly attracted to INTJ’s and to INFJ’s, but my dominanat introverted sensing is so blind to patterns and what may be in others people’s minds. I’ve used type heavily in order to make up for that.
Our intuitive convos online fill a lot of that need, for sure. It’s also interesting how, after taking Intuitive Awakening I’m meeting intuitives way more often, where I live in KC (a mid-size city).
I like how you articulated intuition, “letting the mind flow freely.” (I’m an ENFJ) The future looks extremely bright and exciting from my perspective, and you just made it brighter, so thanks Thomas :)
Well said. :)