All 13 Uses of
intuition
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Because when he first laid eyes on it, he said, he felt a wave of "intuitive repulsion."†
Chpt Intr.intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- The Getty, with its lawyers and scientists and months of painstaking investigation, had come to one conclusion, and some of the world's foremost experts in Greek sculpture—just by looking at the statue and sensing their own "intuitive repulsion"—had come to another.†
Chpt Intr.
- When Federico Zeri and Evelyn Harrison and Thomas Hoving and Georgios Dontas—and all the others— looked at the kouros and felt an "intuitive repulsion," they were absolutely right.†
Chpt Intr.
- In the case of Angelos Delivorrias, it was a wave of "intuitive repulsion."†
Chpt Intr.
- Why didn't the experts at the Getty also have a feeling of intuitive repulsion during the fourteen months they were studying the piece?†
Chpt Intr.
- I was just trying to look at intuitive judgment processes.
Chpt 1 *
- It was an intuitive conclusion that only later I could deconstruct.†
Chpt 1
- Klein's nurses and firefighters would size up a situation almost immediately and act, drawing on experience and intuition and a kind of rough mental simulation.†
Chpt 4intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- There are certain kinds of fluid, intuitive, nonverbal kinds of experience that are vulnerable to this process.†
Chpt 4intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad.†
Chpt 4
- Or are you contracting action units one, two, four, five, and twenty (the frontalis, pars medialis; the frontalis, pars lateralis; the depressor supercilii; the levator palpebrae superioris; and the risorius) in what even a child intuitively understands as the clear signal of fear?†
Chpt 6
- He's very articulate, but he has no intuition about things, so he needs me to define the world for him.†
Chpt 6intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- "When you remove time," de Becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction."†
Chpt 6intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
Definition:
something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner