As you accumulate knowledge—whether it's about what books your spouse likes or how to play chess—you begin to recognize patterns. Your brain unconsciously organizes these patterns into blocks of information—a process the late social scientist Herbert Simon, PhD, called chunking. Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that's what we regard as a flash of intuition.
Look up Herbert Simon for deeper information.
source: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/The-Science-of-Intuition
Monday, February 14, 2011
Let Intuition Be Your Guide
Let Intuition Be Your Guide
Posted by Editor on Jul 09 2010
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The saying, “going with your gut” should probably be more along the lines of, “going with your brain” as researchers start to unravel exactly where that feeling of intuition stems from. They found that as our brains take in information we start to spot patterns of behaviors, events, causes, results and other repeat situations. Our brain takes these patterns and files them into logical groups in a process called chunking. When we use our intuition to help us come up with the answer to something what we are doing is accessing chunks that relate to the situation in question and using the pattern information stored inside them to judge against the pattern in the present.
“Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that’s what we regard as a flash of intuition…”
Read up on when and how to use your intuition
Is there a time you remember your intuition being right on?
from Tony Robbins Valentines day blog post: http://love.tonyrobbins.com/
Posted by Editor on Jul 09 2010
9 Comments | CLICK HERE TO COMMENT!
The saying, “going with your gut” should probably be more along the lines of, “going with your brain” as researchers start to unravel exactly where that feeling of intuition stems from. They found that as our brains take in information we start to spot patterns of behaviors, events, causes, results and other repeat situations. Our brain takes these patterns and files them into logical groups in a process called chunking. When we use our intuition to help us come up with the answer to something what we are doing is accessing chunks that relate to the situation in question and using the pattern information stored inside them to judge against the pattern in the present.
“Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that’s what we regard as a flash of intuition…”
Read up on when and how to use your intuition
Is there a time you remember your intuition being right on?
from Tony Robbins Valentines day blog post: http://love.tonyrobbins.com/
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