Intuition

Notes

Intuition can be conceived as the trained, refined version of Instincts. It usually means that we have managed to convert our explicit conscious expertise into subconscious automatic response. Repeated actions become automatic through habit formation One-time effort investment yields future benefits. Relaxation activates inward thinking for creative problem-solving Some forms of Some knowledge requires direct experience to fully understand can be perceived as a type of intuition, like riding a bike, it's a complicated process that we do intuitively without thinking.

One way of testing whether our intuition is based on expertise or whether it is full of holes is to test it

Advantages:

High efficiency - We have to think less to produce the same quality output as a novice. We think faster, better and use more information to make our decision, while spending very little effort if not any.

Disadvantages:

Hard to teach - It's very difficult to be a good Mentors provide expert guidance and feedback for skill development when most of our knowledge is in the form of intuition. Since we have automated the process, we lack the Self-awareness reveals mental and emotional states enabling intentional action necessary to know why we did what we did and how. We are ignorant of our own expertise and how we got there, so we are of little assistance to others.
Hard to improve - Similarly, once we have automated something, it is very difficult to rethink it and see how we could do it better. Perhaps once something as been automated, there's no going back. That's why they often say that it's easier to teach a novice than an expert, because a novice has no history of bad habits that we need to erase Openness to new ideas without expert bias
Prone to biases - Since we are not aware of our thinking process, we are much more prone to biases without much to do about it. Our Judgment adds subjective value to objective events might lead us astray without having the capability of analyzing why and how to avoid it.