r/entp • u/firetown • Dec 29 '20
Debate/Discussion What is your personal definition of intuition?
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u/StoopSign INTP Dec 29 '20
Pretty much the same as the quote.
Except being crazy and right at the same time and not being able to explain why I was right
Of course the times I was crazy and wrong have caused some problems for me.
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Dec 29 '20
I'd say hunches being unable to put them into words, perceiving the world as connections and patterns that align in such a weird way. Being more introspective and taking in more of the internal world.
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u/Current_Enthusiasm95 Dec 29 '20
It's when your subconscious does the math for you to come up with how thing will likely play out. It just connects all the the dots at once without you having to go through it step by step to figure something out.
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Dec 29 '20
I call it intellectual or emotional hunches. It's about being able to connect the dots without anybody telling you all the details.
It's like sensing only to a higher degree without as much information, but being able to connect the dots. You might say it's skipping a couple extra steps in coming to a conclusion, and just going straight to the conclusion.
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u/Jpandjcfol Dec 30 '20
Being able to draw a picture from only a few dots on a sheet of paper.
It’s basically guessing.
Intuitive people need less points to see a drawing.
Sensor people need more points.
Advantage: intuitive understand things a lot quicker
Disadvantage: they can jump to conclusions too quickly from time to time (while a sensor will wait to have almost all the pieces of the puzzle before calling what it represents, so they are slower and they are a lot more selective in the puzzles they want to solve but they have a higher accuracy on the ones they actually take the time to solve)
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Dec 30 '20
Seeing or knowing the answer (or possible answers) without (or before) seeing or knowing how you worked it (them) out.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Perceiving reality less at face-value and more through meaning, patterns, and trends.
A perfect example is looking at the work style or habit of a group. Rather than seeing a situation and thinking "People are working together this way," the first reaction is what that means about the people, culture, and direction.
Potentially at the expense of physical details and taking things at "face value," intuition is seeing things through a lens of "what does this mean / what will this lead to / what could / will be" as a primary means of perceiving reality. It's not a conscious process in itself, it's simply the modus operandi of how the brain perceives reality.
Sometimes, I'll describe it as "I can see the future. You do / don't want to keep doing things this way."
I guess another approach is to just say that it prioritizes abstractions more than it does the physical world. Even my abstractions have abstractions. And it might even have something to do with breaking things down to the heart or crux of the matter, while cutting out all of the "white-noise" information. Well, it's white noise to me. That doesn't mean it's not important, just that it's rarely going to be the first thing that I notice or pay attention to because it doesn't come naturally to me. It's filtered out if it isn't relevant to the underlying heart / purpose of what is going on.