Order of Man - August 11, 2017


FFN 068： Improving Intuition

Topics
diversifying training experiences
Hosted by
Ryan Michler
Mentioned
Tim Kennedy Patrick Van Horn Jocko Willink Andy Frisilla Grant Cardone Lewis Howes John Boyd Spider-Man
125： Enhancing Your Mind ｜ Jim Kwik 126： 7 Principles of Total Focus ｜ Navy SEAL Brandon Webb

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Length

10 minutes

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1,922

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98


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In this episode, Ryan talks about the importance of improving your ability to use your intuition and why it is so critical that you improve it. Intuition is the ability to understand and recognize something about a situation or circumstance without having to analyze or break down the facts about that particular scenario. It is critical that we as men learn how to hone this sense of intuition and improve our ability to listen to this little voice or however you choose to define it.

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00:00:00.000 Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler, and I am the host and founder of
00:00:04.220 this podcast, The Order of Man. I want to welcome you to what hundreds and thousands of men across
00:00:09.000 the planet have found to be an extremely valuable resource in helping them become the men they are
00:00:15.060 meant to be, and frankly, helping me become a better man as well. If you're new with us today,
00:00:20.120 I need to let you know that we have two shows, guys, released each week, one on Tuesday,
00:00:25.120 where I interview some of the most interesting and successful men this planet has to offer.
00:00:30.000 Guys like Jocko Willink, Tim Kennedy, Andy Frisilla, Lewis Howes, Grant Cardone, and of course,
00:00:34.780 so many more. And then we also have this show, the one you're listening to right now,
00:00:38.880 which is our Friday Field Notes, where I share some flashes of inspiration and insights that
00:00:45.560 I've had from throughout the week. If you are listening to this the day that it is being
00:00:49.680 released, tomorrow is a big day for us at Order of Man. We've got our first ever live meetup going
00:00:55.840 down in Kansas City. If you're going to be there tomorrow, I'm looking forward to meeting with you.
00:01:00.560 If not, it's okay, because we will be doing more of these throughout the U.S. and then moving abroad.
00:01:05.480 So be on the lookout for that. Two resources I have, guys, that I want to mention briefly to you
00:01:10.260 before we get into some of my thoughts. First, head to facebook.com slash groups slash order of
00:01:16.620 men to join over 35,000 men now having some incredible conversations about what it means to be a man.
00:01:22.580 And second, if you're one of the select few who's really ready to take this up a notch,
00:01:28.460 join our exclusive brotherhood at orderofman.com slash ironcouncil. Again, this is our brotherhood
00:01:33.840 where you'll get all the tools, the resources, and the accountability to excel in your life as a man.
00:01:39.740 It's really interesting to me that we have roughly 320 members inside of the Iron Council and 35,000 men
00:01:46.900 in the Order of Man Facebook group. The Iron Council represents roughly 1%
00:01:51.340 of the men in that open Facebook group, and it's been that way since the beginning.
00:01:56.040 I wish, of course, the percentages were higher, but I think it's like anything. There's always
00:01:59.980 going to be a select few who want to take it to the next level. Again, you can do that at
00:02:05.120 orderofman.com slash ironcouncil. All right, so let's have this discussion today. Intuition,
00:02:10.880 guys, it is the ability to understand and recognize something about a situation or a circumstance
00:02:17.340 without having to analyze or break down the facts about that particular scenario. It is so critical
00:02:24.980 that we as men learn how to hone this sense of intuition and improve our ability to listen to
00:02:30.600 this little voice or however you choose to define it. So today, as I was thinking about what I wanted
00:02:35.780 to address, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about why it's so important that we improve
00:02:40.800 our intuition and a couple quick and easy steps and strategies that each and every one of us can
00:02:46.400 employ to make our intuition work just a little bit better for us. So let's first break down why
00:02:51.640 this is so important. I think first and foremost, improving your intuition, it makes you faster at the
00:02:57.620 important stuff. If you're constantly having to evaluate and analyze any particular situation or even
00:03:05.440 set of data, you are operating at less than peak performance. We are so bombarded, you know this as
00:03:11.860 well as I do with information and roles and responsibilities and duties and tasks. It's critical that we do
00:03:19.560 not get bogged down trying to decipher what course of action we should take in any scenario. Next, improving
00:03:26.960 intuition allows you to focus on the important tasks and responsibilities. And it also at the same time
00:03:34.060 eliminates the need to focus on things that don't really matter. And let's be truthful about this.
00:03:39.620 A lot of us get bogged down with things that don't matter. What's really interesting is as I was preparing
00:03:44.420 for this conversation, I looked up some studies that have actually been performed. And here's just a few
00:03:51.000 of these absurd studies. Number one, dark, quote unquote, dark websites are more commonly used for crime.
00:03:58.280 Business travelers like it more when they have TSA pre-check. Another one, most of your Facebook
00:04:05.580 friends are not really your friends. This one's really good. A healthy diet will help you live
00:04:11.680 longer. Exercise makes our muscles work better with age. And this one's my personal favorite.
00:04:18.640 Spider-Man does not actually exist. People, guys, smart people actually spent time and money
00:04:26.000 on these studies. Imagine for just a second, if we used those resources somewhere where it actually
00:04:33.820 mattered. I think part of the reason that people do studies like this, that we may intuitively know
00:04:38.940 that, for example, Spider-Man does not really exist is so that they can find excuses for not doing what
00:04:45.560 we intuitively know that we should. Third, guys, your intuition, it produces results. How do I know
00:04:53.340 that? I can't point to any particular study, although I'm sure it's out there, but I can tell
00:04:59.260 you that it's something I intuitively know. Humans have been on this planet for tens of thousands of
00:05:04.700 years. If we didn't have some sense of how to stay alive and even more importantly, the ability to
00:05:10.020 thrive, we would have gone extinct with the dodo bird and the saber-toothed tiger. And then fourth,
00:05:17.620 it's important that we improve our intuition so that we can improve our level of accuracy.
00:05:22.360 As many factors as you can consider when making decisions, the better off that you will be.
00:05:27.880 And when you can couple raw and hard data with, couple it with your sense of intuition,
00:05:33.380 I think that you'll find you're more accurate more often. So let's talk about how to do this.
00:05:38.980 I'm going to share with you three ways to improve this little sense that we call intuition. First,
00:05:44.660 listen and respond to your intuition more often. If your intuition is telling you something,
00:05:51.460 listen to it and then react accordingly. I believe that our intuition acts like a muscle
00:05:57.880 in that the more that you exercise that muscle, the stronger it will become. And if you don't
00:06:03.340 exercise that muscle or listen to your instinct, that muscle is going to atrophy and become useless.
00:06:08.600 I know it's hard to trust our gut, to trust our instinct, to trust what we feel, especially if
00:06:14.040 you're maybe an analytical type person, but you have those feelings for a reason, listen to them.
00:06:20.080 Next guys, train yourself, train your mind, train your body, train everything that you can.
00:06:26.420 And this will naturally improve your intuition. On the podcast with Patrick Van Horn, a couple of
00:06:32.260 weeks ago, he's the author of Left of Bang. You can find that at orderofman.com slash one, two,
00:06:37.860 three, we talked about learning to drive. When you're first learning to drive, you have to go
00:06:43.280 through a series of tasks and steps in order to ensure that you're going to drive safely down the
00:06:49.040 road. 20 years later, I'm sure that I still go through all of those tasks and all of those steps,
00:06:54.800 but I've done it so often that I intuitively and without thinking perform those tasks.
00:07:00.140 And another resource you may want to look into is the OODA loop. This is the process that was
00:07:06.240 originally developed by Air Force Colonel John Boyd, and it refers to the cycle of observe,
00:07:13.340 orient, decide, act. And that's when making military decisions, but it also applies to
00:07:19.880 so many other decisions and situations that we may have to face on a daily basis.
00:07:25.100 Tim Kennedy, he's an MMA fighter and army ranger qualified special forces sniper.
00:07:29.940 He teaches something very, very similar to that. I've had him on the podcast as well,
00:07:33.920 where he talks about that, and you can check it out at orderofman.com slash 094. His process is
00:07:40.700 awareness, assessment, action, then analysis. So whether you use either of those processes or
00:07:48.580 something else entirely, the more practice that you get in real world environments, the better
00:07:53.900 and more capable you'll be of getting quicker at moving through the process and getting to that
00:07:59.480 desired outcome even quicker. And in my experience, the less time you'll have to spend critically
00:08:04.520 analyzing every situation you may find yourself in. And then of course, you'll be able to respond
00:08:09.440 instinctively and without thinking about it, which leads me to the last point that I wanted to make
00:08:14.200 with you today. And that is the power of diversifying your training and your experience.
00:08:18.960 If the only input going into your brain is the same input that has always gone in,
00:08:25.300 you're never going to be able to build out and maximize your intuition. It is impossible guys
00:08:31.260 to make decisions in this life in a vacuum. Your choice in one area of life is naturally going to
00:08:37.980 spill over to other areas. It's been my experience that if you can give yourself exposure to different
00:08:45.080 inputs and experiences, training, vacation, stimulation, whatever it may be, you can use those
00:08:53.100 sets of experiences and other elements of your life. And not only does it make you a more well-rounded
00:08:59.100 man, it makes you much more efficient and it gives you the ability to draw upon a wide, a vast array of
00:09:05.660 tools and skills and abilities that other people might not have. Intuition guys, it is so, so important.
00:09:13.220 I think it's easy to assume that some men are more intuitive than others. And while I agree that
00:09:19.120 might be true to an extent, intuition is also something that can be grown and developed and
00:09:24.880 improved upon for your benefit and also the benefit of the lives of the people that you are serving.
00:09:29.940 The more tools that we have in our tool belt, the more effective that we become. It seems to me that
00:09:35.100 intuition is one of those tools that commonly gets overlooked because we tend to believe that you
00:09:40.040 either have it or you don't. Or, and this is one of the unintended consequences of the
00:09:45.060 technological world in which we live. It's so easy to look at data, hard data, Google it, for example,
00:09:50.800 and forget that our minds and our souls also possess a hard to quantify set of data that we should also
00:09:58.840 be considering. Again, intuition will help you make decisions faster. It will help you develop your
00:10:04.360 ability to focus on important things. It'll produce greater results and it will make you more accurate.
00:10:09.720 And the best way to do that is to listen to your intuition and respond more often,
00:10:15.420 train this extra sense that we have, and then create a broad array of inputs and experiences in
00:10:20.480 our lives. So if you want to learn more about how to do this and plug into the hundreds and thousands
00:10:26.380 of other conversations that we're having about improving your ability to perform, I invite you to
00:10:31.640 join our exclusive brotherhood, the Iron Council. And you can do that at orderofman.com
00:10:36.260 slash Iron Council. Until next week, gentlemen, trust your intuition, develop your intuition,
00:10:42.580 take action, and become the man you are meant to be.