Order of Man - FFN 068： Improving Intuition

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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.

Order of Man - August 11, 2017

FFN 068： Improving Intuition

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