Hello Toufik,

Thank you very much for your comments and for sharing your thoughts about intuition. I can tell that this is an important subject to you!

In answer to your question, yes, I think intuition can be taught. However, it is not easy to become better. There are many reasons for this, but I think that most of them are cultural. Namely, there is a deeply embedded preference in modern culture, and in the West in particular, to: increase the amount of knowledge you have, to think endlessly about that knowledge, and to endlessly evaluate your experiences. This last characteristic - endless evaluation/categorization of your experiences - is the most difficult to overcome. Some examples: your thoughts, even fleeting, about the last stranger you saw or met; your opinion about today's weather; your thoughts about the management team you are evaluating; and so forth. Evaluation relies upon comparison, and by definition, to make a comparison you must reference something from your memory/past. That takes you out of the present moment, and hence out of the realm where intuition is possible. I will be writing about this much more in future months. In the meantime, so that I do not front-run my own discussion, this will have to suffice.

With a big smile!

Jason