12 Intuition: Navigating by Wisdom

“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur, co-founder of Apple

(Stanford Commencement Speech, 20051)

“All that the pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs…”

In his book Nature Is Your Guide: How to Find Your Way on Land and Sea, record-breaking navigator Harold Gatty claims that there is no such thing as a sense of direction. He explains that a person who appears to have such a “sense” is actually using their five ordinary senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling), informing and informed by their experience and intelligence.

Today we have GPS satellite navigation and numerous other technologies, ...

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