When Should We Discard Our Intuition?

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When should we rely on our intuition? We all have experienced it; when you just know what to do but you do not know why. This is based on your intuition, it is the obtaining or access to knowledge without the use of reason. For example, when you first meet someone, unconsciously you have all kinds of judgments about them. These prejudices are made in you non-conscious mind, it processes the information that you are not aware of at a conscious level. Of course, your intuition is not always right, but when should you rely on your intuition? It depends on the situation. We are bad at predicting and estimating risks. Also we think we can do more than we actually can. However, we can detect patterns which are very complex without even knowing it and we are good at predicting how others will behave. We are also good at learning how to do things without knowing we know or knowing how we do it. We should take these statistics into consideration when we want to trust our intuition. We should also consider the evidence based on the other three ways of knowing. In a lot of cases, your intuition is not trustworthy. We are intuitively overconfident of our own abilities. In a study of 800,000 students, 100% of them rated themselves at or above average in their ability in dealing with other people. 60% put themselves in the top 10% and 25% of them put themselves in the top 1%. They intuitively were confident about their social abilities. We are not only overconfident about our capabilities, but we are also very bad at knowing why we do certain things. Our intuitions in this regard are very unreliable. Sometimes we just make something up. It seems that once we act we have to have reasons for those actions and when we don't know why, our intuitions about why we acted are often wrong. Another thing at which are difficult for us is to predict how we are going to react

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