What’s the biggest unmet need that most Intuitives face?

Leadership with educationWhile 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.

30 comments

  • Astarte
    • Astarte
    • June 22, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    Hey thanks for this, Antonia. You’ve verbalised something I knew intuitively. (Of course) I’m fortunate in that I’ve gathered a number of people into my circle who fulfil this need of mine. It also helps explain why I remain outside the field of conventional counselling and am regarded as a ‘maverick’ coach. Cheers.

  • Marianne
    • Marianne
    • June 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    Finally! It is real food, essentail and impossible to live without.

  • Roger
    • Roger
    • June 22, 2012 at 11:41 am

    Most Important need but seldom fulfilled. So few bodies; may be blog time?

  • Kerrie
    • Kerrie
    • June 22, 2012 at 11:36 am

    So warming to hear that this habit of mine to break out of the normal chit chat (which I find incredibly boring) and into crazy territory is actually vital for my well-being :)

    Thank you so much for affirming that which I have always known I guess.

  • Thomas
    • Thomas
    • June 22, 2012 at 10:30 am

    Spot on! I love these types of conversations, where the mind is allowed to flow freely. Not a lot of people understand this, and often consider you weird when one lets the imagination loose. With your views/research in hand one can refer to an objective source, which should calm down more – so called – scientifically inclined people. Point being humans are different, and having an active imagination, is not a disease but a major ressource !

    Maybe there’s a brighter future in store for intuitives ..?

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