Seven Greatest Ideas for Developing Your Mind

Idea 17: Learning to t rust your intuition

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Albert Einstein

Intuion is the most common general word for the faculty of the depth mind. It indicates the kind of comprehension or knowledge that comes quickly to awareness, apparently without the intervention of conscious reasoning, inferring or deliberation.

The most characteristic example of intuition is when you come to know, or suspect, that a situation exists when you have no direct evidence that it is the case.

Managers are often deterred from recognizing and using their own ...

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