Jason,

Love the series!

Intuition: to be able to judge the truth of a matter absolutely and not relatively. From my own experience, if one is not conscious of the power of intuition, then it becomes much easier to dismiss any such "Eureka!" moment or to chalk up a decision or action to mere luck (if hindsight proves that one's feeling of a situation, matter, stock, management team, etc., was ultimately right). My advice to those that are of this mindset is to carefully track the performance of all of their investment ideas (not just the ones that become part of one's portfolio) and record those seemingly amorphous feelings about each one, beyond financial characteristics and other "hard" data. I believe there's a high probability of a positive correlation between performance and one's intuited response to each.

For those that are still skeptical, I would only underscore that intuition and right-brained processes are only half of the equation; no one is advocating abandoning financial analysis, accounting, etc. It may be symptomatic of Western education to only consider the extremes of the spectrum, but investing is a field that requires innate balance in all aspects. If numbers were all that mattered, then a whole lot of investment professionals will be replaced by machines in short order.

Looking forward to the next article :-)

Regards,
Ben