Intuition as Articulated Hidden Knowledge

"Unreasonable success flows from intuition. Intuition converts the hidden knowledge we’ve picked up throughout our life from our unique experiences, creating incredibly valuable knowledge. Developing unique intuition – turning your hidden knowledge into incredibly valuable knowledge – is about the most fun thing you can do in your life."

"Good intuition is the articulation of hidden knowledge. It is a leap of imagination which captures the truth that, in a sense, you already knew."

"You need intuition with these qualities: •  It must be important. Could it make a dent in the universe? •  It must be unproven and original. Otherwise it is a fact, not an intuition. •  It must be imaginative. •  It must be simple. •  It must contradict the experts. •  Yet it must be based on deep knowledge. •  You must star in the intuition. Your ambition and emotion are part of the package, part of the appeal, and an integral part of the driving force. Your singular intuition will eventually arrive unexpectedly and suddenly. Will it to come, and it will come. Do not rush it. It is the intuition of a lifetime, which will transform and immeasurably enrich your life, your world, and the whole world beyond you. It is worth willing; worth waiting for; and worth committing yourself to utterly."

"‘A new idea,’ said Albert Einstein, ‘comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.’1 Intuition is not random. The more you are an expert in a narrow field, and have deep wells of knowledge and experience in it; the more you think about it, clearly, and with curiosity, the better your hunches will be. Intuition is not the opposite of knowledge – it’s adjacent to it, underpinned by it, the extension of"