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Many of us rely on our intuition to help guide us through every day life. This book delves into how much we can use our intuition and how much it can be completely wrong about a whole lot of things.
David Myers’ book is split into three main sections. The first is the powers of intuition, the second covers perils and the third suggests some more practical examples of intuition in such topics as Risk, Investment, Medicine and Sports.
This book has helped me to realise some of the true faults in human intuition, both in terms of how we interact with other people and our environments and how we should take a little more of a rational view when it comes to predicting outcomes. Much of this book lends itsself to proving how intuition is wrong which involves a little mathematics and a little more probability theory. It also reminds us how intelligent we are whilst intuiting physical events and circumstances with little or no effort.
There are some very interesting thoughts within this book, and it is a very good eye opener to those things which we leave to our non-conscious mind. David does a great job with metaphors referring much of the time to the concious brain as the “man upstairs” and the non-conscious mind as the “administration” which does so much more of the time, without us even realising it.
This book has made me think. I have started to realise that great ideas come from recognising the non-conscious thoughts and when they graze the surface of the conscious mind, it’s up to us to grab them and take full control. I think that with careful thought and observation, one can learn to recognise these surface grazing experiences.
A small amount of this book which is a little overwhelming for the non-American-sport-fan among the readers is the section about Sports Intuition. The view point comes from the American sports and readers not familiar with the game talk of basketball, baseball or other sports might feel a little bemused. There are other references to popular American culture idols including television gameshows, but these can be overcome with the simple explinations given along with the text.
I have found this book an increddlibly easy book to pick up and read. I can pick up and put down whenever and after reading the first two sections the third is really an added bonus which could really be read in any order. There are definately some links into the psychological subject area, and into the non-conscious human mind taking control when we least expect it , or even want it to!
