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Intuition - what is it?
Moving along his life path, a person is constantly in a state of choice - choosing from two or many options for the further vector of movement or preferences of a different nature. What should be guided by with such a variety of possible options? It is at such moments that intuition comes to the rescue - the ability to choose the best of the options offered by life.
How is intuition formed? Intuition is a product of a person's subconsciousness, which works regardless of whether we want to use it or not. The subconscious mind offers us the best opportunities for solving the problem of choice. Where does the subconscious get the answers to the problems we are solving? The subconscious mind works with a storehouse of memory, where all human life experience (acquired regardless of age) is stored and retrieved as needed, outside of our desire.
In solving everyday issues, a person can resort to the help of thinking consciously or unconsciously. To solve the problems facing a person for the first time, conscious thinking is used. We deliberately turn on our intellectual reserves and try to solve the problem by brute force (successful or unsuccessful). This requires increased work of the brain and energy expenditures, absorbs a person's attention and forces him to focus on the problem being solved, detaching himself from the world around him for a while.
If our subconscious mind decides that the problem is already known, it throws us a solution to it (without our conscious choice), and the person does not spend any resources on thinking - the answer comes by itself. Thus, significant practice in solving certain kinds of tasks (problems) leads to a quick finding of a solution without time and mental costs.
This is where intuition (in other words, foresight) comes from - from our own life experience, put aside without our knowledge and extracted in extreme situations (again, contrary to our wishes) for a quick choice.
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