Educating Intuition

This book by Robin Hogarth was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: John Vervaeke. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness, meditation & mindfulness, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"Every day we make intuitive decisions - from the mundane choice of what clothes to wear to more important judgments such as which new car "feels right" or which person would be "good" for a particular job. To varying degrees, logic plays a role in these decisions, but at a certain point all of us rely on intuition, our sixth sense. Is this the right way to decide? Should we trust our gut feelings? When intuition conflicts with logic, what should we do?". "In Educating Intuition, Robin M.

• “I'm deeply influenced by two things: Csikszentmihalyi's work on Flow and Hogarth's work, Educating Intuition, and he makes a proposal”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I'm deeply influenced by two things... Hogarth's work, Educating Intuition, and he makes a proposal, and I think this is the best proposal I've heard”
  John Vervaeke · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 202300:44:55

  Said during "John Vervaeke, How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features John Vervaeke: Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory, and creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates. Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses the meaning crisis.