I met with someone yesterday who values their strong intuition. They allow their intuition to guide many of their big decisions. I value my friend’s perspective; however, I don’t know if I could operate like that.

I value rationalization. Why? In the past, I made decisions too quickly based on nothing but my intuition. In fact, I too deeply read into symbols and my perceptions of people and situations. I overcorrected, and I am okay with that for now. I do want to improve my intuitive sense; but how?

My forming opinion is that we improve our intuition by pulling wisdom from the past to the present. Making life more like an algebra equation — the formula looks familiar but only the inputs/stakes have changed. Perhaps intuition is another word for “gut wisdom”?

Ideally, we become wiser people each day. We spend time reflecting on our past decisions. We think about how we improve decision making going forward. We take a bit more time to see what we can see and contemplate what we can’t. We game out the second and third order effects of our work. We acknowledge our feelings and balance them against realities. We do our best to not negatively disrupt the lives of others.