Max Gunther

"A. J. P. Taylor, Brad Stone, Andrew Roberts, Roy Jenkins, Winston Churchill (the author), David Cannadine, Robert Tombs, Walter Isaacson, Neal Gabler, Tom Cannon, Bob Dylan (the author), Ian Bell, Thomas Kuhn, Viktor Frankl, Robert Skidelsky, Victor Sebestyen, Nelson Mandela (the author), Peter Hain, Lindy Woodhead, A. N. Wilson, Andrew Welburn, John Campbell, Nancy Andreasen, Timothy Wilson and Max Gunther."

"A hunch can be trusted if it can be explained … it is information you don’t know you possess. —MAX GUNTHER"

"We can state some guidelines in respect of intuition: •  Trust your intuition only in areas you know backwards, or about people you’ve known very well for a long time. •  Author and investor Max Gunther says, ‘Never confuse a hope with a hunch … I’m much more inclined to trust an intuition pointing to some outcome I don’t want … Be especially wary of any intuitive flash that seems to promise some outcome you want badly’.2 •  Hone your intuition in your areas of special focus. Your most valuable hunches will be where you have developed unique knowledge already, and are using intuition to extend it."

"Acquire unique intuition: The unconscious mind The Creative Brain by Nancy C. Andreasen. An accomplished psychiatrist with an interest in literary and scientific geniuses extols the unconscious mind and tells us how to be more creative. Enjoyable and most instructive. Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. Wilson. Excellent – perhaps the most useful single book by a neuroscientist on how to use the power of the unconscious mind. Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow. Witty and wise – what the new unconscious teaches us. Incognito by David Eagleman. Also excellent. The Brain by David Eagleman. A more popular version of the book above, but does not appeal to me quite as much. Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer. How to make decisions better and more easily. A brilliant celebration of simplicity. The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther. Splendid section on intuition. The rest of the book is fascinating too. The Luck Factor by Max Gunther, pages 133–155. Some overlap with the book above, but also excellent. The subtitle encapsulates the message – Why some people are luckier than others and how you can become one of them. The Genie Within by Harry W. Carpenter. Not up to date scientifically, but more useful than many of the books by expert neuroscientists. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. As above – very useful. The New Unconscious edited by Ran R. Hassin, James S. Uleman, and John A. Bargh. A collection of academic papers. In my opinion numbers 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 are the most interesting and useful. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Very good stories and a few excellent points."