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and internalizing the information to provide direction.
Learned Intuition
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 gives them the immediate answer by drawing on the patterns created in training.
Sometimes that direction is instantaneous as in the case of one of the pilots who had to make a decision in three seconds to destroy what could have been an enemy aircraft with intent to kill or an aircraft with no ill intent.
His immediate reaction was not to pull the trigger which was the best decision when evaluated later. He could not have made that decision rationally. Nick, the pilot interviewed, sees intuition as a way to pull from hours and hours of training and experience to make instant decisions in life threatening situations.
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