{"id":3097,"date":"2018-09-20T05:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2019-04-25T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:41:26","slug":"three-kinds-of-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/three-kinds-of-intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuition and decision making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brain science tells us there are three kinds of intuition: ordinary, expert, and strategic.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary intuition is just a feeling, a gut instinct.<\/p>\n<p>Expert intuition is snap judgments, when you instantly recognize something familiar, the way a tennis pro knows where the ball will go from the arc and speed of the opponent\u2019s racket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategic intuition is a clear thought.<\/strong> It&#8217;s not a vague feeling, like ordinary intuition. And it\u2019s not fast like expert intuition. It\u2019s slow. That epiphany of insight you had last night might solve a problem that\u2019s been on your mind for a month. And it doesn\u2019t happen in familiar situations, like a tennis match. Strategic intuition works in new situations. That\u2019s when you need it most.<\/p>\n<p>This third kind of intuition is what I go by whenever I can. Strategic intuition is what guides the majority of my decision making. And while it is unpopular these days to request time for thinking, you have to take your stand and do it anyway, and allow for proper time to reflect. I have a 24 hrs &#8216;sleep it over&#8217; rule.<\/p>\n<p>Which compliments my other approach to life and everything, something that&#8217;s called the OODA loop (<em>observe, orient, decide and act<\/em>). This &#8216;rapid evaluation routine&#8217; keeps running permanently on the back of my mind (or wherever my intuition-o-meter sits). Originally the OODA method was derived by pilots who apply the loop to make fast decisions and review them in a constant cognitive circle.<\/p>\n<p>You have to swim fast when the water is cold&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3106\" src=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"ooda loop\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed.png 384w, https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain science tells us there are three kinds of intuition: ordinary, expert, and strategic. Ordinary intuition is just a feeling, a gut instinct. Expert intuition is snap judgments, when you instantly recognize something familiar, the way a tennis pro knows where the ball will go from the arc and speed of the opponent\u2019s racket. Strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-about-the-web-and-you-and-me-and-all","tag-performance-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}