Some of history’s most notable and successful leaders were known for their intuition: Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey and Albert Einstein, to name a few. But going with your gut doesn’t work for all ...

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This post was co-written by Justine Saavedra and Tchiki Davis. Intuition can be a difficult concept to define—it is sometimes described as the sixth human sense. It happens when your brain quickly ...

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, we’ve all been sternly warned about the risks of employing intuition when making important decisions. In his book Blink, ...

I was recently asked what advice I might give to aspiring business leaders that could help them make purposeful decisions. After giving this question serious consideration, I recalled a Harvard ...

We've been running on a very narrow spectrum of human intelligence, and it's landed us in social and environmental crises. Our very survival now depends on reclaiming other, wiser parts of our minds.

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Have you ever accepted a job that didn’t feel right and later realized it wasn’t a good fit? Or said yes to a date with someone that you knew deep down wasn’t compatible because they looked great on ...

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