Category: Intuition

Creativity: The Importance of, the Hindrances to, and the Means of Increasing Creativity

Intro: The ability to think critically is a divine gift, a tremendous responsibility, and a moral/ethical imperative. In our day, such thinking has been displaced by hyper-emotionalism on the one hand and new-agey ‘mindfulness-at-the-expense-of-in-depth-reasoning’ on the other. We absolutely need to think deeply, soberly, and rationally, if we want to have any sense of credibility.…

Personality Types: Enneagram: The >Negatives< of the Type Four and Type Five Personalities (Two Videos)

Man… as a 4w5 / 5w4 dual-personality type, these two videos were really hard to hear at times. He does exaggerate at times, and I definitely disagree with him at times (especially on certain social/religious/political points), but honesty dictates that he is incredibly spot on in his overall assessment of the core types (though I…

Cognition: “Subconscious Messaging: How They Influence Decisions and Behaviors” by Jeff Stibel (USA Today)

“Background music used this way is an example of supraliminal messaging – shoppers hear the music but are not conscious of it influencing their thoughts. Subliminal messaging is similar except the stimulus in question is undetectable like an image flashed too quickly for the eyes to see, or a sound too low or too scrambled…

Intuition May Reveal Where Expertise Resides in the Brain: Scientific American

“Our ability to provide rapid, accurate answers engages a small area in the brain’s basal ganglia, a hub for learning and automatic behaviors…Sometimes a solution just appears out of nowhere. You bring your multipage spreadsheet to the finance department, and within seconds the accountant tells you something isn’t quite right without being able to say…

The Neurological Basis of Intuition – Neurophilosophy

“Most of us have experienced the vague feeling of knowing something without having any memory of learning it. This phenomenon is commonly known as a “gut feeling” or “intuition”; more accurately though, it is described as implicit or unconscious recognition memory, to reflect the fact that it arises from information that was not attended to,…