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Arjun sees intuition as a very important life skill. His view of intuition is that it fits into two buckets:
The first is what he calls “raw” intuition where there is no rational explanation to the directional energy. (I define this as Future Intuition).
The second is intuitive direction that is gained from years of practicing a specific skill (Past Intuition). For him, this specific skill is finding and building investment opportunities that will provide a strong return for his investors.
“Raw is the bucket of energetic pull. Information from within that has no rational explanation, but something pulls you in a certain direction.”
Arjun talks about an example of his intuitive process as starting with a need.
“When you perceive a need, you pay attention to what attracts you - where the energy drives you.”
How did he know that computer technology would lead the way for decades? He didn’t, but his intuition gave him the “energetic pull” that set the direction for his life.
The second bucket, Past Intuition, involves the “10,000-hour principle” where you spend a great deal of time learning a particular skill or an area of expertise, and then use “learned intuition” as a way of synthesizing and internalizing the information to provide direction.
As part of this research, I interviewed two fighter pilots who basically said the same thing.
These men went through a great deal of rote training to learn skills to the point where they became unconsciously competent. Then, when put in a situation where an instant decision is necessary, their intuition brings up the immediate answer by drawing on the patterns created in training.
Often that direction must be instantaneous. There is no time to rationally consider an action. You might think of Sully landing in the Hudson river.
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