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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Hello, fellow NTP! :p
Actually, I don’t know your personality type, but my guess is that you’re an Accuracy/Exploration type (INTP) just by your post. I would absolutely agree that “highly abstract, intuitive conversation” is a slight misnomer. It basically has to be for the time being. Intuitives are looking for slightly different styles of conversation, but they’re all looking for it at what’s called the “top of the Ladder of Abstraction” – meaning, they want to pursue concepts at the zoomed-out point of view, not merely at the zoomed-in, concrete level.
The best conversation for me is one that alternates between zoomed-in/zoomed-out, because that’s how I problem solve the best. And, as you mentioned, it’s how I recognize false premises and biases I may have missed along the way. I know, though, that not all Intuitives are seeking the same flavor of intuitive conversation. There are NFP’s (Authenticity/Exploration), for example, that want to stay ‘high on the Ladder of Abstraction" but don’t really care if they’re committing logical fallacies, because that’s not the point.
In order to acknowledge all Intuitives, I keep the description at “highly abstract, conceptual” since that’s as close to accurate as I can get while still honoring the different flavors. Being inclusive means losing some accuracy for the individual.
And, besides, “‘intuitively-evidential conversation’” where the breadth of topics, assumptions and connections are not constrained by disciplined rational thought, but whereby intuitive calibration augments and acts as a discovery and calibration tool for rational thought. The outcome is more access to genius and insight, grounded in well formed perceptions, calibrated intuitively instead of merely through alledged ‘objective referencing’ which is full of semantic noise anyway”… might not make it by my copy writer. :P
Thank you for comment! I love that you knew what I was talking about, and yes: the exact form of conversation you’re referring to is extremely nourishing for me, as well.
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Note that, at least for me, “highly abstract, conceptual conversation” is a slight misnomer.
I think what you actually mean is “intuitively-evidential conversation” where the breadth of topics, assumptions and connections are not constrained by disciplined rational thought, but whereby intuitive calibration augments and acts as a discovery and calibration tool for rational thought. The outcome is more access to genius and insight, grounded in well formed perceptions, calibrated intuitively instead of merely through alledged “objective referencing” which is full of semantic noise anyway.
This type of conversation requires that participants can distinguish between distortions introduced by cognitive biases and logical fallacies and even commonly held understandings (that may be incorrect) to base their perceptions on what they know. I think for intuitives that type of conversation is very affirming, because, less intuitive folk often deny the very nature of what they can’t perceive, over-estimating the World they know as what there is to know, discounting other ways of assembling and organising perceptions. It’s a bit like surfing the nuances of uncertainty, with enough certainty, you can navigate and make working sense of things.
Such open conversations are nourishing because of the freedom and possibility they presume, which is a kind of expansive thinking and allowing, which in turns, allows for higher grade and affirmed intuitive thinking.
This is really enlightening! I know I crave a good conversation, but I never thought of it as a need.
Thanks for pointing that out – now I can start honoring it even more!
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My almost waisted life !
But when I close my eyes I see the little girl just running in the green open space, and then looking up at the clouds that keeps changing…was I but again that little girl ?
I see the times that I got up a reached the impossible dream, but never got any recognition.
It made me feel, that I was so very odd. The paintings at the art collage that was so highly
and die…. So you always have to find new ways to please those near to you….or do nothing ?recommended, my father would burry in the back yard. Something inside of you withers
Marie Melite Kaajan
This is so true, the basic mind help, the life fulfilling loving feeling of being accepted for being abstract and genius or powerful. Like. history has shown so many of these relationships and has mis labeled them as soul mate or twin souls.
Cleopatra ,Antony and Caesar or King Arthur , Gwendolyn and Lancelot. In these women there existed a deep passion for these men and a very valid life requirement. Both women loved their husbands because it assured their self love of themselves and constantly made them feel whole. Survival of the 6th and 7th chakra. The other love was spiritual, physical and a necessity for the first chakra to flourish.