Focused…

Intuition, like so much of life, we think some people have it and some don’t. I mean c’mon man, we know the old saying, “A mother’s intuition,” means that momma just naturally got mo. She does not.

Expert intuition, according to Daniel Kahneman in his book titled Thinking Fast and Slow, is not some kinda mother’s magic. Expert intuition is the result of deliberate practice done well. Mothers do mostly possess it when it comes to their kids. You see, most moms have been deliberately studying those they love since before they gave birth and have tuned in to all their body language, tone, and patterns of behavior since they were in the womb. Fact.

Expert intuition is due to the expert’s focused attention.

Mom’s know what’s up before most men because they’ve been more attentive. The truth is they have become an expert by paying attention with their eyes, ears, nose, and hands – yes their hands. Moms learn so much by touch, don’t they. Wonder what’s gonna happen to the evolution of this intuition with so many Moms deathgripping iPhones and locked in on Instagram?

So, friend, if you want to make quicker & better decisions in your profession, pay more attention to the people and process. Study them. Study competitors. Study the best. Figure out how to extrapolate your learning to your system. Focus your most precious commodity – your attention. Your gut and mine are informed by attention. So, if you want to trust your gut, focus your attention on the elements that lead to domain specific expertise. Make sense? Of course it does. I’ve been focused on this topic for over thirty years. Damn.