I built Biz-cen.ru , an office-rental proptech, and Lashoestring.com, a UK antiques e-commerce. I run a Telegram channel, in Russian. For contact — email. Writing from Berlin.

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There is no intuition without knowledge

Most time of a day you act in situation where you can predict consequences of each of your movement. In such situations you usually use your mind only to choose the better algorithm to get a result. What is more, when you face with some problem, you can predict the outcomes of your acting with great probability.

Things change, when you get into situation where the complexity of situation is high and you have two or more decision that you can choose between. In such situation you probably will use your intuition to choose one of them. Your decision in such condition will be as great as your formal knowledge of the area of such problem.

For example, you can’t make a decision based on your intuition, what move in chess game is greater, if you do not know how to play them. The only way, to grow your intuition is to learn rules of this game. Furthermore, if you want to build a strong intuition you need to know more about the area where you can face with ambiguity situation. By the way, if you already know basic rules of how to play chess, it might be effective for you to gain knowledge in psychology. It can help you to choose the better game tactic to fight with your opponent. Hence, be smart once you are thinking about improvement of your intuition.

The main quality that you need to master

In my view, the most meaningful quality of a person — is an ability to solve problems in situations with high level uncertainty. We are living in world where all change in high speed, nothing is stay the same for a moment. Yes, some changes come faster other slower, but any way changes happen constantly. Of course, you can use the same technique that you use previously to achieve the result.
And you will get less and less result every time you do not improve you way of doing. At the beginning, fell this downgrade → feel this downgrade but later it will be obviously.

As we already know, that changes in the world happen constantly we need to improve our way of achieving result constantly too. There are two ways how we can guide ourself through this process. First, we can be attentive to all changes in the area where we are dealing and make some improvements in our technique. Second, we can predict future changes and construct a hypothesis that we need to apply to our working algorithm to achieve a better result.

The second way is the best one, because you will already change your working framework when you need to apply it. The first way is just a reaction to the changes, so you will lose some productivity while you are working on changes. To construct great hypothesis, you need to improve your intuition in area where you working. To make better your intuition you need to know more about the area where your are dealing. Hence, to be effective in any area of your life.