Unsafe Thinking: How to Be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most by Jonah Sachs

Author:Jonah Sachs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Interrogating Intuition

With so much stacked against us as we try to determine whether we should go with our gut or not, what can we do? If we want to find and invest in counterintuitive breakthroughs, abandoning our intuition altogether hardly seems reasonable, but if it’s so often flawed, is letting it guide us ever advisable?

I asked these questions of every intuition researcher who would speak to me. They all gave me slightly different answers, but their advice made essentially the same point.

Robin Hogarth, a leader in the field of intuition research, summed it up elegantly: “Emotions are data that need to be explained.” In other words, Hogarth told me, we should treat our intuitive insights like ingenious hypotheses. We shouldn’t ignore them. We also shouldn’t feel sheepish about openly discussing them with our colleagues. Intuitions should be celebrated. They belong at the front of the line of our attention when making difficult decisions in uncertain environments. But as with hypotheses, we should never trust our intuitions until we’ve questioned them, pressure-tested them, and patted them down, searching for cognitive and emotional bias.

Easy to say. But I wanted to know how we can make this a part of daily practice. I found the academic texts somewhat vague on the subject, so I began to look for organizations that both relied on and regularly challenged intuition.

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