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In this episode Joel and Antonia answer the question “What is intuition?”
In this podcast you’ll find:
- What is Intuition? Intuition is a pretty abstract word. It’s something many of us rely on for quick judgments and often life-altering decisions.
- Intuition is a particular way that people learn information.
- There are two ways in which people learn new information.
- Through their 5 senses.
- Intuition – not relying on those senses in order to understand and learn new information. Therefore, relying on advanced pattern recognition.
- You can’t directly interact behind the curtain, but you can deduce what’s going on behind the curtain based on the pieces of information you get in front of the curtain.
- Sensory people are looking to find something that’s reliable and can be verified.
- Intuitives are not dependent on things that are reliable. Someone who’s using intuition to learn puts more emphasis on speed of information and depth of insight on information. They will sacrifice verifiability for speed and depth of insight.
- Intuitives are more comfortable with speculation and so they’re willing to take risks. Eventually, they’re going to become more and more proficient with it.
- When it comes to pattern recognition and speculation, intuitives are getting better of taking risks and accurate speculations.
- Although sensors may have an intuitive piece on them, they don’t become efficient with it because they’re not comfortable with its nature and process.
- 75% of the population in the US are sensory and only 25% are Intuitives.
- Everyone is creative. We all have a creative element inside of us. Some of the most creative people use a sensory as a form of learning.
- The greatest artists in the world are sensors. The big difference is that Intuitives have a tendency to create something the world has never seen because they’re looking for things that can only be imagined. Sensors on the other hand, when they’re creative, have a tendency to make something new that already has a sensory platform.
- There’s no argument that both are valid ways of learning.
- Some people tend to hide their being intuitive. The Intuitives who keep going are so powerful that they end up being the people who are most celebrated.
- If you are of an intuitive learning style, the first step is to accept it. The second step is understanding its potential and doing what you can to hone it.
- Take courage, give yourself permission and you’re going to see a more different world.
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Joel and Antonia,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Personality Hacker has been nothing short of a godsend. I had been digging into Myers Briggs for a year or two when I discovered Personality Hacker, but I am not sure how I ever would have developed a deeper understanding of the cognitive functions (and all sorts of other super interesting theories) without you.
There were so many things that resonated with me in this episode. From feeling like a weirdo as a kid, to struggling with administrative process, to learning to redact the “weirdness” of your thought process/ideas because you are trying to get by in an S world, it is powerful to realize there are others out there with this shared experience. I really liked when Antonia said the man told her the paperwork was expired and her reaction was “How would I know that?” I feel like this is always what goes through my head. It all seems so random and pointless.
When I first learned about Ns, it was an incredibly emotional and powerful experience, as it is for many I’m sure. I feel that having Se inferior especially leads many to immediately asses you as being slow or incompetent because simple/remedial tasks can be challenging for you. It is frustrating to feel like the world will never understand the value you have to offer because everyone writes you off so quickly. Since I have embraced being an N, I often no longer hesitate to make (kindof odd) statements such as how much I resent having to exist in a human body. People’s reaction to this alone tends to be a good S/N indicator in itself. Also, a bit of a digression, but while I inherited athletic genes (physically), it is almost as if it is wasted because my brain lacks the ability to take advantage of this. I was faster and stronger than many of my peers in school, but I would forget if I was playing infield or outfield. (Who does that?) Making quick, in-the-moment decisions on how to use my body based on arbitrary rules of a game was just not my thing.
I had been dying to find someone like me when I finally met my best friend Serra. It has been about a year now since we started to become close and listening to your podcasts has been such an integral part of building our friendship (and our obsessive and somewhat consuming interest in typing people). We sit next to each other at work and all we do is type every person we come across. It has become challenging for both of us to have conversations with other people because most of the world doesn’t understand statements like “I felt bad because this Fi user was unaware that the group lost interest in what they were saying and they kept going on and on because they just wanted someone to validate their feelings and everyone was suffering,” or “These STJs are killing me with the amount of detail they want to include in these meeting highlights.” However, of this entire personality typing system, nothing has been more powerful in the way we understand people and the world than the S/N dichotomy.
I found it interesting that you explain the difference as Ns being more comfortable with taking risks and operating in realms of the unknown. Lately I have begun to call Ss the fear-based decision makers, although this might not be a totally fair characterization, it is something that often frustrates me when interacting with them. I found the sensory podcast also very helpful, especially as Serra and I have been having conversations lately about how to appreciate Ss more.
While listening to some of these earlier episodes, I heard you say that one of your main goals is to create an N awakening and I wanted to tell you that your podcast has been a significant factor in creating a micro N awakening for this nucleus of two. We are lucky to have a variety of N colleagues who we surround ourselves with at work and have rich and stimulating conversations around the lunch table. We continue to purposefully seek out other Ns who we can bond with and mutually develop each other’s strengths. We often refer people to your site/podcast. We love the car model and we think your cognitive function nicknames are brilliant.
Thank you for your work and all that you do in this area.
My younger brother and I both use exploration as our driver function (he is an ENTP and I am an ENFP) and I remember when my brother was a toddler, my sensing mom, who had learned her lesson from me seven years before, was attempting to keep catastrophes from happening but she kept getting ‘outwitted’ because she couldn’t relate to how my brother thinks and how he could discover things. Once she found that someone had reset the combination key to her luggage and locked it while she was packing for a trip. She blamed me for ‘messing with her’ despite my insistence that it wasn’t me and that I saw my then two year old brother tinkering with the bag. That angered her even more because my brother was just two and she was adamant that it was impossible. Finally because I was too ‘stubborn’ she called my brother out and told him to unlock her bag and reset the combination key. When he actually sat down and did it, my mom’s mind was blown.
My mother often thought that I tend to overestimate what my brother could do (like figuring out how to reset combination keys and read calendars and kept track of dates on his own, etc) without anyone teaching him and while being young myself I did fall to that mistake, in general my estimation of what ideas my brother has and can grasp is more accurate than hers probably due to our shared driver function. So I had a tendency to teach him pretty crazy stuff like a whittled down version of the sciences I learned at school (since we both get excited by new ideas).
I imagine living in a very sensing concentrated community, an intuitive child would get frustrated and confused at being denied or being singled out because of that thirst for new ideas. For us, my mother is the only sensor in our family and she’s very intuitive sympathetic. In fact, since my siblings and I began delving into the world of personality typology, we noticed how the circumstances is reversed for us in our family. We realised that when the meal conversation goes too high up into the ether, my mom would try to bring it back to a level that she could relate. And it’s great how our knowledge has allowed us to be mindful of that so we could try to work things out between us in a way that everyone can enjoy their time.
…wow. The “blending” thing is too accurate. I’m an INTJ, and I think ever since I was about four, I’ve been consciously trying to “project” as a certain type of person in order to basically streamline my existence. When I learned about MBTI a few years back, I realized that my main “mask” as I like to call it was basically the average ISFJ. Which, as I’ve learned, is either the most common or second-most common type. Of course, my tertiary Fi absolutely hates me for doing this, but Te’s desire for efficiency makes “blending” a must in most situations. Glad to know it’s something other intuitives do!
This was very informative thanks. It very much explains the debates and difficulties I have with my mum because we are obviously of different perceiving styles. I am glad to have my style but I don’t think I have been making the best of it. I hope to find further info from you on how I can!
Thanks for the comment, Leighah!