research project: intuition
Did a deep dive into what intuition exactly is and how it can be used to make better decisions. I wanted to use it to make a decision about something that was bothering me for a long time.
I think this has been the shortest research project that I've done where I've only used three materials. Two articles and one video.
Essentially, intuition is the brain tapping into a data set and doing processing in the background when you are unaware of it. This tapping into is helping you obtain an intuitive sense based on copious amounts of past experience.
The past experience part is the kicker. Really, you need past experience to form any intuitive perception.
For example, I saw someone where they walked into a store and didn't like what they saw and quickly walked out. I concluded that they've seen a lot of stores like this before and their brain created associations [associations help one to predict events]. All of those unconscious data points were lighting up in his brain that told him [from prior experience] that this is a store he wouldn't like [from all the other experiences that contained those similar or exact data points].
It takes time for the brain to build these associations!