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Acquire Intuition And Love

Acquire Intuition And Love

Can we pass on anything greater to our children than the training to acquire intuition and love?

Probably not.

The magnitude of it makes you want to carefully consider who you are allowing to educate your kids.

Or, at least it does me…

This post makes little sense without this one.

God bless our sweet little kids.

But of course this training will not occur if the teachers do not believe that any given emotional response is any more or less valid than any other. Note the close relationship between this argument and my earlier description of what Maritain believed the teacher can accomplish: “Though intuition and love cannot be taught directly, it is the task of the teacher to help form young people so that when the opportunity comes, outside of school, for them to acquire intuition and love, they will be prepared to do so.”

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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The Problems From A False Intuition

The Problems From A False Intuition

Can you see past a false intuition?

I love the example that came with this note on intuitions because it rings so true.

Konnikova tries to get over her bias in favor of an Oxford debater simply due to educational pedigree.

She points to the ways we perceive each other that are sometimes unconscious.

Quick answer. There are two attorneys who are the same price, same specialty. One went to Harvard the other a state college.

Who do you want to hire?

It’s like the old joke about an English truck driver sounding smarter than an Alabama brain surgeon.

Even more interesting: How can you use people’s unconscious biases and false intuition to your advantage?

Our intuitions are powerful even when entirely inaccurate. And so it is essential to ask, when in the grip of a profound intuition (this is a wonderful person; a beautiful house; a worthy endeavor; a gifted debater): on what is my intuition based? And can I really trust it—or is it just the result of the tricks of my mind?

-Maria Konnikova, Mastermind

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