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I have a friend who says she makes all her decisions with intuition, and I sometimes think she’s making decisions that don’t serve her well in life. I tried to give her logical reasons for doing something different, but she didn’t want to do anything other than what her intuition told her to.
I’m a Myers Briggs intuitive myself, so I use my intuition regularly, but I started pondering about when is it more appropriate to use intuition vs. reason. I think I have an answer now, and I’d welcome feedback from all of you to see if you agree:
I’d argue intuition should be used for deciding on axiomatic truths - things that are so obvious they are self-evident. And that reason (along with our sense of fairness) should be used to build.
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Garrett is a programmer turned award-winning software inventor turned entrepreneur (PlateRate.com is his company). His hobby is writing and discussing practical philosophy, and he does life coaching on request to help people live happy, moral lives. He is also the executive director of The Free Thinker Institute (http://freethinkerinstitute.org/), which aims to create a community that helps members increase happiness and decrease harm for themselves and those they can influence.
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