The Power & Perils of Intuition

[MorgaineLaFay]

Who’s is stronger between the sexes?

Is there a gap in genders?

Are men more rational, while women tend to be more intuitive?

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[LukkyKnight]

No, men are no more rational, though they do tend to rely more often on the linear part of the brain as a generalization. Hence women's intuition gets more exercise, and men are societally urged to rely less upon pattern recognition (at least in North America.)

 

[pabloback]

women are better at subconciously picking up on body language which can seem like intuition

 

[dragonhearted]

I believe...........

That because women are by nature emotional and nurturers...it is like second nature really for many to use their intuition. I know I rely more heavily on my intuition than I do on my logic.

 

[sufisaint]

I completely trust intution over logic....intuition comes from your true self that truly sees reality...."logic" (not talking true logic, if there is such a thing) comes from the mind which always has its own self preservation tainting reality... I have never been let down by following my intuition and burned when i did not listen.....but I have talked myself into some really fucked up shit and talked myself out of taking some great adventures..

 

[dragonhearted]

I completely trust intution over logic....intuition comes from your true self that truly sees reality...."logic" (not talking true logic, if there is such a thing) comes from the mind which always has its own self preservation tainting reality... I have never been let down by following my intuition and burned when i did not listen.....but I have talked myself into some really fucked up shit and talked myself out of taking some great adventures..

boy have I been there!

 

[Guest]

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

What did I mean...I mean..Intution. Non-verbal communication. The links between perception and response.

 

[Guest]

oops

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

*chuckling*

I don't have the answers. I am just most curious on what others think.

 

[Lost Cause]

It's all tactics....

Females using more of their brain hemispheres then men, tend to pick an experience to death! They learn the who/what/when/where and why of an experience through networking with other females. Guys just brood, figure "oh well", and get on to the next bedthrasher.
(Typical internal male dialogue, "That bitch, why didn't she tell me not to trim my toenails with my teeth? Why am I the last to know? Maybe we can get back together...oooh look at the tits on her! Excuse me miss, did we got to school together? My name is..blah..blah")


*That's why we die a handfull of years before females do!

 

[islandman]

I need to learn to trust my intuition more.

 

[horny_giraffe]

I believe that correct intuition is usually pre-conscious logic. That is to say, there's usually a reason why you sense something. The trouble is in articulating it.

One might sometimes reject intuition outright simply because one cannot explain it. But in fact, most of the time I can trace my intuition to something that I've observed.

For example, I might see a man walking down the street towards me with a dark object in his hand. It's raining. I don't worry. Later, I realize that I had figured out that he was carrying an umbrella and not a weapon.

For any decision for which I have time to think (which is virtually every decision where I am not in a physically dangerous situation) I've found that it is more practical to use one's intuition to lead toward clues that can be rationally assimilated.

In the above example, I might notice the dark shape and feel a twinge of nervousness. I think about the source of this nervousness (the dark shape) and quickly identify it. Problem solved. Much better to use intuition as a guide to real information rather than a source of that information in itself. To make decisions solely based on one's "gut" or "intuition" can be be quite foolish, as one's conscious mind is clearly superior for sorting out observations.

By analogy, it makes no difference whether one builds a sandcastle by using their hands or by using a trowel--the sandcastle consists of sand. If a prediction is like a sandcastle, then the sand is like one's observations. Whether we have found these observations through some systematic effort, through some intuition, or simply by blind chance--the expected outcome of these observations should be assembled via conscious thinking.

I believe that both rationality and intuition are part of the same package and need not be seperate.

Whether you define intuition as a source of information or an excuse for impulsive behavior, I've found that men and women rarely differ much in my social circles. Men may call it "going with their gut" while women may call it "intuition," but it hardly matters what you call it.

 

[superlittlegirl]

I think this is nearly impossible to analyse without generalizing or stereotyping. I consider most people to be fairly equally distributed along a continuum of logic and intuition, and then there are some exceptionally logical and intuitive people who transcend the common denominator. I don't consider the two qualities to be mutually exclusive, and in my experience, the really exceptional ones often exhibit equal amounts of both.

 

[teddybear4play]

I think this is nearly impossible to analyse without generalizing or stereotyping. I consider most people to be fairly equally distributed along a continuum of logic and intuition, and then there are some exceptionally logical and intuitive people who transcend the common denominator. I don't consider the two qualities to be mutually exclusive, and in my experience, the really exceptional ones often exhibit equal amounts of both.

Say "continuum" again. It makes me hot.

TB4p

 

[superlittlegirl]

Mmmmm......

Continuum........

 

[onewingedangel]

Yeah some of us are just lucky