Can intuition be trained?

[marybagain]

An acquaintence of mine, who specialises in risk assessment and safety systems, has recently submitted a paper about the role intuition has in the field of safety assurance and management.

He writes: "Intuition is a process that closely cooperates with the analytic mind, and derives its information from past experiences in the quasi-conscious or

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[love_thief]

I'm guessing your friend doesn't mean Myers-Briggs iNtuition, just intuition in general. The Gift of Fear is a really good book about using your intuition to stay safe. The author purports that most of us have intuition (as in, gut feelings) we just may not listen to it. Paying attention to your instincts is a way of honing it, I guess.

For example, I had a friend who mentioned she was going to see an old acquaintance. She specifically said she thought he was "kind of crazy" or something to that effect, but that she didn't think he would "do anything". The next day, she wrote about how when visiting him, they got into a heated discussion... and he punched her. She ran out and described it like a horror movie... she couldn't get her keys into the car door fast enough before he dragged her back into the place and restrained her while deciding what to do. She was really scared, obviously, but she got away with just a busted lip. The story disturbed me a great deal. And I don't "blame the victim", at all, but the thing is, she already suspected he was unstable. That's intuition at work. If she had listened to it, she might have avoided the whole situation.

[marybagain]

Yes - I should have made it clear that this was not specifically the M-B interpretation of intuition. The paper refers to the work of Bastick and Patton and also Klein's work on the functioning of human intuition.

Thanks for the reference link.