Intuition in sports

During high pressure moments of a competition, racing thoughts, critical thoughts or too many thoughts become a distraction. Thinking slows down response time. During those high pressure moments clutch players are not distracted by their own thoughts. Immediate, decisive action requires a quick response.

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Intuition is not based upon linear, logical thinking. It is a subconscious process. It's similar to viewing the situation from a bird's eye view instead of a path. The focus is on the outcome, not on the steps to get there. It is a momentary gut feeling instead of a logical choice. Think about it too long and you are likely to talk yourself out of it since it lacks logic. 

Gas Station Intuition By: Keshawn Triplett

           Gas Station Intuition

 About 3 years ago, my brother and I entered a gas station on 32nd and Prospect in Kansas City, MO. Upon entering this store, I had no idea my intuition would be tested to the extreme as it was. My brother and I were just simply trying to buy some snacks after our long night of Djing at a local club. At the time it was approximately 2:30 in the morning. As we entered the store we straddled to the back with tired eyes. We got our items and headed to the cash register. When we made it to the cash register, I realized that I only had a $100 bill. The cashier said that he could not break a bill that big for what he had so he would have to go to the back to get some more cash. As he spoke the final word, out the corner of my eye I see a black old school Chevy caprice pull up to the store. I immediately I felt what was like a punch in my gut about that suspicious car that had just pulled up. I just knew that something was wrong, and that something very bad was about to happen. I stuttered in my words in telling the cashier that going to get more cash was unnecessary, and that we would be on our way. I grabbed my brother by the shirt and gave him a tug toward the door and we rushed out. As we were walking out the store as calm as our legs would allow, two men jumped out the suspicious car wearing ski mask, and carrying handguns with what looked to be extended clips. At this time, we were about 50 feet from the suspicious car. As soon as we saw this we made a all out dash to the car we came in. My brother fumbled with the keys and we made we sped away like post men from dogs. I could feel my heart beating out my chest as I sat paralyzed with fear unable to fix my mouth to speak. I always wondered why they never attempted to turn and shoot at us or anything like that. That night i struggled to get sleep, and I kept my eye on the news to see if the clerk made it through the ordeal alive. it turns out he did, and the men made off with little to no money seeing that the clear was unable to even give us change for a $100 bill. This situation in my life represents intuition at its peak. What if I decided to wait until the clerk went to go get change? Would I even be here telling this story now?
                                                                                                   -Keshawn Triplett

Different Types of Intuition

The different types of intuition

The following list is by no means comprehensive, but it represents the different phenomena that have been associated with intuition. Each type may involve different mechanisms and requires a different research method.

• Primitive instincts of self-preservation, such as the flight-or-fight syndrome, avoidance responses, pleasure-seeking and instinctive responses to reduce primary needs, such as food, water and safety.
• Conditioned emotional responses, which range from fear, aversion, suspicion, attraction, and attachment.

• Bodily intuition includes messages about bodily needs and conditions. Medical intuitives such as Schulz and Northrup (1999) emphasize the need to use intuition to decode these somatic messages in order to maintain and enhance our health and well-being.
• Mystical intuition encompasses a wide variety of subjective experiences, such as spiritual guidance, inner light, psychic intuition, fortune telling, prophetic insight, detecting energy fields, and ESP. Is this related to spiritual intelligence?
• Interpersonal intuition refers to the ability to pick up clues about relationships. It also includes the capacity for empathy and character judgment. It is clearly related to emotional intelligence (Goleman, 1995). The proverbial women’s intuition is mainly confined to this area.
• Practical intuition – in solving everyday problems, the capacity of anticipating the problem and finding the best solution, quickly and effortlessly. This type of intuition may be related to practical intelligence (Sternberg, 1997) and fluid intelligence (Cattell, 1987).
• Expertise intuition is domain-specific and it is closely related to expert knowledge and critical insight. This ability of “thinking without thinking” (Gladwell, 2005) cannot be easily disentangled from special talents in any given field.

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Intuition in Life

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Albert Einstein

1. This quote gives a sense of what intuition is. A dictionary will show you that intuition is, “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.” Intuition can be an immediate reaction to an action. Intuition can show a lot of absolutists ideas because there is no reason for the person to explain what he or she thinks is the truth. For example, if I say, “Two plus two equals four, and that’s the final decision. There is nothing I need to explain about this.” Also, the flight or fight response plays a huge role in intuition because the flight or fight is basically your immediate reaction to an unexpected situation. Since intuition is the ability to understand something immediately without using any reasoning, you can immediately react to an unexpected situation.
2. Intuition in life-  Many People see intuition as a “gut reaction”. Many people also can get intuition confused with memory. Intuition uses your memory to make quick, decisive decisions or speak without reasoning.

Intuition in Music - Freestyles

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without interference and the use of reason.  Intuition can be seen in Hip-Hop, most notably freestyling.  Freestyling is the act of rapping with a mix of written lines and one made up on the spot usually in a competitive setting against another freestyler.  Some might argue the made up lines could be influenced by the other battler, none-the-less the sentence structure is most likely intuitively fabricated.

Hand motions while freestyling is also important to pay attention to.  It seems to be a spontaneous action done to the syllabic cadence of their lyrics, a intuitive subconscious motion.  A$AP Rocky shows us just that, the first so-called freestyle (the song Hell off his album Long.Live.A$AP) has significantly less motion than the second because it is a rehearsed.  Their is considerably more movement in the second.