49 | Intuition

How do you make a decision when you don’t have enough information to see the full picture?

When you have to make a decision and don’t have enough information to see the full picture, your brain fills in the gaps with assumptions about the world that you have been storing throughout your life. This is one way to define intuition.

It happens very fast and it happens at the unconscious level: you have to make a decision and your brain draws on past experiences and behaviors to respond to external signals, no matter how…