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“People treat intuition like it’s a dirty word, but it’s actually one of the body’s survival mechanisms,” says Antoine Bechara, Ph.D., an associate professor of neurology at the University of Iowa. “It’s a means of taking you away from danger and steering you toward what is good for you.”
Yet many of us ignore this tool – or worse, respond to urges that are misguided or the product of a fevered imagination. Fine-tuning your intuition will help you make better decisions whether you’re buying a car, making new acquaintances, or solving problems at work. It could even save your life.
“Intuition is fast, based on pattern matching,” explains John Allman, Ph.D., head of a laboratory at the California Institute of Technology that focuses on brain evolution. "Our brains are constantly comparing current experience with the past, trying to find a fit so that we can make a quick decision. When we find a match, often in a fraction of a second, our intuition boils down a lot of experience into a simple, visceral metric: I feel good about this or not," Allman says.