Intuition is one of the most important of our capabilities. In our ever more complex world, it becomes indispensable. As Albert Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”.
Intuition is at the source of creativity. Creativity is the hard currency of the Collaborative Age. Value and compensation will increasingly be for creativity, while the application of rationality – processes – will become a commodity (and often taken up by robots).
What Einstein highlights is how much we still tend to hide the inputs from intuition when we describe for example how we developed an idea or worked on any problem. Yes, the final output might appear rational in hindsight, but the insight is often pure intuition.
Learn to respect and develop your intuition, because that’s what is going to make the difference in the Collaborative Age.
