“Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.” — Louise Smith
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” —Albert Einstein
In fields such as science, engineering and technology significant depth is needed. But the defining characteristic of the modern world is actually its unimaginable width.
The brain has two separate decision-making mechanisms:
- Logic, based mostly in the left brain hemisphere, very good at depth
- Intuition, based mostly in the right brain hemisphere, very good at width
Logic only handles boxes, Intuition also handles flows.
Logic is about the exact, Intuition is about the fluid.
Logic is a very local tool. Evolved to find, catch and eat, it has a narrow direction and all width is lost. Intuition is a global tool which is more powerful.
- Logic is evolutionary new, undeveloped and prone to errors, called fallacies.
- Intuition is evolutionary old, an almost perfect decision-making tool.
While logic can be accumulated and systematized by the whole of humanity for the great benefit of all, intuition remains a private, individual tool.
The key difference between logic and intuition is that with logic you have to understand and be able to explain the workings of a system to get a correct answer. With intuition you just have an answer. It’s a shortcut. Intuition is strongest when facing binary choices.
The brain is a biological neural network, not so different from the ones used to train LLMs like ChatGPT. The brain has 3 massive advantages though:
- More connections
- Parallelism
- The energy efficiency
The world’s best logical chess brain loses by a mile to a $300 phone running any off-the-shelf software. Meanwhile your average intuitive brain beats by a mile the world’s billion dollar best proprietary intuitive AI.
You need almost no deep logical thinking in your life. Every time you make the leap of faith to replace it with intuition, amazing things happen.
Fear and other negative emotions are NOT intuition. Though they are both subconscious and may tell you the same thing, they come from a very different place.
Fear is an unwanted giant wave, giving you zero credible information. Intuition is the gentle ripple pattern in the sea, that subtly but consistently tells you all you need to know.
Hype and euphoria are also NOT intuition. They feel great but are not sustainable. Intuition is a part of you, it never goes away. It simply may become quiet if it’s noisy.
Intuition is a decision-making tool. It needs data points and time to develop and the astonishing pattern recognition capabilities of your brain will take care of the rest.
How to develop your intuition?
Love, energy, responsibility, motivation, creativity, curiosity and meaning all help create the space for intuition to form.
So do speed and scale. The more you have lived through, the more helpful data points there will be for patterns to emerge. This is vastly underestimated by most people. Speed has a huge correlation with success.
What types of intuition are there?
- Intuition about structures (includes all “boxes”, causal relationships and the possible tree of consequences of any action)
- Intuition about quantities (includes all “flows” and comparing them, money, time and the breaking points to trigger any possible changes)
Life is a mess of structures and quantities, united by a universal principle:
Quantity changes lead to quality (structural) changes when a certain threshold is passed.
Knowing where the threshold is is a quantity question which makes intuition about quantities extremely important in life.
There are often two thresholds – upper and lower one.
The thresholds are often known as “breaking points”. Typical breaking points for the cooperation of most people are various quantities of inertia, fear, guilt/shame, envy, (perceived) disrespect/unfairness/immorality and others.
The other quantities that are worth feeling are flows – Numbers, Money, Freedom, Time. You cannot measure a flow, but you can compare it to the same flow in the past. These are valuable data points for your intuition.
Human beings are extremely interconnected. Everything influences everything else. You are a complex vibe system. Self-understanding simply means having vibe intuition.
I Grow Younger is all about building an intuitive framework about you and your life. We teach you to feel which actions trigger upward spirals and which trigger downward spirals.
Vibe intuition is the best tool for self-improvement.
If you don’t understand yourself, you cannot understand society and the world – they are made of people much like you!
As a vibe system, ignoring everything but feedback loops, turning the direction you’re going in into the key to understanding yourself… complexity is finally manageable.
The components of vibe intuition
This type of intuition is all about how structures and quantities evolve over time in closely interconnected systems like a human being. While assessing structures and quantities is more or less static, assessing how vibes propagate is very dynamic.
If you believe you change easily, you change easily.
With a few medically diagnosable exceptions The Game of Self is one big self-fulfilling prophecy.
This is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time because you’re highly susceptible to both upward and downward spirals.
You just need to be on the right side of some key spectrums:
More self-love and self-worth;
More unconditional love, less attraction;
More hunter moves, less sheep moves;
More and more of the precious long term freedom;
More chaos, less self-discipline;
More meaning.
More intuition, less logic.
Being on the right side of those is what causes the virtuous cycles of mental health and wellbeing. Vibe intuition simply tells you which spectrums are the critical ones for you at this very moment.
In I Grow Younger we strongly support your personal quest for freedom. This usually happens when you manage to scale some kind of business. Scaling a business idea does require depth. But you need width to feel all possible business ideas so you can explore the ones you have the right resources for and the ones whose time may have come.
This width is possible only thanks to a developed intuition that you trust
Business is a complex field where your structure, quantity and vibe intuitions solve different parts of your challenges. It has never been easier to start a business, thanks to unprecedented access to free/cheap education and information combined with the low ambition of most other people, who are struggling under the weight of the boxes and distractions of modern life. Yet your final, critical advantage can be the unlimited power of your combined intuition.
You’re already unconsciously using 100% of your brain. The problem is without intuition you only hear the advice of the least-capable part of it.
