Art and Science of Intuition

 

Genius Awakening Presents: The Art & Science Of Intuition

Camronn  and  Antonia  speak  about  The  “Intuitive  Awakening”  program  in  this  transcript.     The  “Intuitive  Awakening”  program  is  part  of  the  Genius  Awakening  suite.   Come  check  it  out  at  www.GeniusAwakening.com!  

The  Art  &  Science  of  Intuition   Host:  

Today  we’re  talking  about  intuition,  and  the  title  of  this  call  is   “The  Art  and  Science  of  Intuition.”  A  lot  of  people  have   different  concepts  of  what  intuition  is,  so  I’d  like  to  just  ask  you   guys  to  sort  of  clarify  what  is  intuition.  What  are  we  even   talking  about  in  the  first  place,  when  we’re  talking  about  the   art  and  science  of  intuition?  

Antonia:  

We  can  talk  a  little  bit  about  people’s  impression  of  what   intuition  is,  because  there’s  pretty  much  nothing  but   nonspecific  information  out  there.    I  looked  up  a  bunch  of   definitions  about  intuition  not  too  long  ago,  and  I  couldn’t  find   anything  that  was  specific  at  all.    A  lot  of  people  said  it  was  a   sixth  sense,  a  gut  feeling.    Some  people  believe  it’s  a   supernatural  voice  that’s  talking  to  you.    There’s  a  lot  on   women’s  intuition  or  mother’s  intuition,  so  it  almost  feels  like   it’s  gender  specific  in  that  case.    Some  people  feel  that  it’s  just   a  nudge  in  your  mind,  which  kind  of  sounds  like  a  gut  feeling   too,  but  that’s  a  little  more  with  your  unconscious  mind  is   talking  to  you.       Some  people  feel  that  intuition  is  just  like  the  universe  telling   you  or  letting  you  know  when  something  bad  is  about  to   happen.    I  remember  a  story  I  heard  about  a  girl  who  had  been   a  hair’s  breath  away  from  being  one  of  Ted  Bundy’s  victims.     She  said  that  she  was  approached  by  him  at  a  college,  which   was  sort  of  his  MO,  was  to  pretend  like  he  was  crippled   somehow,  put  an  arm  brace  on  and  ask  a  girl  to  take  his  books   to  his  car  for  him,  as  if  he  was  a  student  himself.  Then  he   would  clobber  them  over  the  head  with  his  brace,  and  that   was  how  he  captured  women.      

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Genius Awakening Presents: The Art & Science Of Intuition

She  said  that  as  she  walked  up  to  his  car,  something  just  didn’t   feel  right  about  it.  She  dropped  his  books,  mumbled,  “I’m   sorry,”  and  ran  away.    She  said  she  felt  horrible  about  it  for   years,  that  she  had  been  so  awful  to  this  crippled  guy.  Years   later  when  she  saw  his  face  on  the  news,  that  that  man  had   been  a  serial  killer  and  rapist  of  women,  she  realized  that  she   had  come  that  close  to  being  one  his  victims.    Something  just   didn’t  feel  right.    She  felt  that  it  was  God  protecting  her.    In   that  case,  she  attributed  her  intuition  to  essentially  God  or  the   universe  warning  her  from  a  bad  situation.    That’s  pretty   common,  a  pretty  common  definition  of  what  intuition  is.     Host:  

Yeah.    I  remember  Mark  Victor  Hansen,  who’s  one  of  the   authors  of  “Chicken  Soup  for  the  Soul,”  he  was  sort  of  a   protégé  of  Buckminster  Fuller.    Buckminster  Fuller  was  one  of   his  mentors.  He  was  traveling  with  Buckminster  Fuller  and  they   got  on  a  plane  and  Bucky  said,  “Let’s  get  off  this  plane.”    They   did,  and  later  on  they  found  out  that  the  plane  that  they  had   been  on  crashed.    On  some  level,  Buckminster  Fuller,  it  sounds   like,  had  some  kind  of  an  inkling  that  there  was  a  reason  to  get   off  the  plane.         Those  are  some  fascinating  explanations  of  what  intuition  is.     There’s  a  lot  of  stuff  out  there  that  sounds  probably  pretty   unlikely,  like  it’s  more  likely  sort  of  cognitive  bias  is  happening.     What  are  we…is  there  a  real  component  to  it?    Is  it  all  just   cognitive  bias?    What  is  going  on?  

Antonia:  

Yeah.    Addressing  whether  or  not  it’s  a  cognitive  bias  is  pretty   important  as  well.  Because  some  people  are  really  put  off  by   the  concept  of  intuition,  based  on  their  believing  it’s  just   confirmation  bias.    Really,  some  people  feel  it’s  just  an  excuse   to  be  prejudiced.    If  you  have  an  “intuition”  about  somebody   and  then  it  ends  up  you  were  right  because  they  gave  you   evidence,  and  you  can  point  and  go,  “See  there?    Right  there.     That’s  how  I  knew.”    Then  it  just  looks  like,  “Was  that  truly   intuition  or  is  that  just  you  retrospectively  or  retroactively  

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confirming  whatever  your  bias  originally  was?”         To  follow  with  that,  an  excuse  to  be  prejudice,  it  could  also   look  like  just  an  excuse  to  be  judgmental  as  well.       Host:  

Right.  Now  let’s  get  into  some  of  the  science.    I  know  you  guys   are  very  scientific  about  this  and  open-­‐minded,  but  not  so   open-­‐minded  that  your  brains  fall  out.    What’s  the  real   intuition?    What  is  it  that  we’re  talking  about  here  in  the   context  of  this  call?    How  do  you  guys  define  intuition?  

Camronn:   In  a  really  basic  way  or  basically  to  state  this,  intuition  is  simply   sophisticated  pattern  recognition.    The  process  that  your  mind   uses  to  recognize  patterns  in  this  way  was  kind  of  identified  by   Carl  Jung  when  he  was  doing  some  of  his  work  on   psychological  types.    He  identified  a  couple  types  that  used   something  that  he  called  intuition  and  other  researchers  after   him  have  confirmed  his  observations,  and  kind  of  increased   the  specificity  of  the  description.       The  thing  is,  it  is  pattern  recognition,  but  the  pattern   recognition  process  is  happening  in  your  unconscious  mind.   Some  part  of  your  brain  is  looking  at  all  this  information  in  a   couple  different  sources  and  collating  it  together,  finding   patterns,  finding  connections.  You’re  not  aware  of  any  of  that   going  on.       What  happens  is  that  once  your  unconscious  reaches  a   conclusion  of  some  kind,  it  just  passes  that  conclusion  to  your   conscious  mind.  All  you  have  is  the  answer.    You  don’t  have   any  of  the  processing,  the  logical  deduction  and  so  on  that  tells   you  how  you  got  that  answer.    It’s  really  very  understandable   that  people  would  ascribe  some  sort  of  mystical  significance  to   these  flashes  of  insight  that  they’re  getting  from  seemingly   nowhere.   Antonia:  

You  could  really  see  how  this  sprung  up  over  time.    In  the  past,   when  there  were  a  lot  of  predators  around,  when  we  had—we  

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really  lived  in  that…  fight  or  flight?    Fight  or  freeze  mechanism.     There  we  go.    When  there  were  a  lot  of  predators  around,  you   didn’t  really  have  time  to  stop  and  go,  “Oh,  that  grass  looks   like  it’s  mushed  down  there,”  in  sort  of  this  semi…  this  many   inches  pattern,  and  it  looks  like  it  sort  of  followed  how  many   ever  feet.  “That  might  be  something  that  crunched  that  grass,   and  therefore  it  might  be  an  animal  that’s  around  that  might   be  wanting  to  munch  me  as  well.”       If  you  got  a  gut  reflexive  intuition  based  on  pattern   recognition,  you  saw  that  munched  grass,  you  saw  that  things   were  just  a  little  off,  having  that  instant  knowledge  that  your   subconscious  collated  and  sent  to  your  conscious  mind  was  a   lifesaver,  originally.  It  makes  complete  and  total  sense  that  our   minds  would  have  developed  this  mechanism  to  get  us  out  of   bad  situations  quickly.       Over  time,  however,  we  apply  it  to  different  situations.    We’re   no  longer  in  a  situation  where  we’re  constantly  dealing  with   predators  of  that  sort,  but  we  deal  with  all  sorts  of  other   situations.  Situations  where  having  that  instant  information  is   just  as  powerful,  just  as  important.  Intuition  coming  from  that   place  makes  a  lot  of  sense.   Host:  

Okay.    It  sounds  kind  of  like  what  basically  happens  is  your   conscious  mind  and  maybe  the  input  coming  from  your  five   senses  is  like  taking…  it’s  bundling  up  a  question  into  a   package,  like  a  FedEx  package,  and  then  it’s  shipping  it  off  to   your  unconscious  mind.  Your  unconscious  mind  is  working  out   the  answer  and  then  it  ships  back  the  package  with  the  answer   in  it,  and  there  it  is  with  the  nice  pretty  little  bow  on  it  but  you   didn’t  really  see  what  went  into  the  formation  of  that.    Is  that   accurate?  

Camronn:   It’s  a  good  description.    There’s  actually  two  different  kinds  of   intuition  that  have  been  identified,  and  that’s  a  really  good   description  of  one  of  the  kinds.    The  other  is  more  geared   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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towards  recognizing  patterns  emerging  in  real  time,  and  that…   basically  the  two  different  types  of  Intuition  are  Extraverted   and  Introverted,  or  in  other  words,  directed  outwards  or   directed  inwards.     The  kind  that’s  directed  outwards  we  refer  to  as  Exploration,   because  it’s  very  possibilities  oriented.  Basically  it’s  your   unconscious  gauging  patterns  that  are  emerging  in  real  time  as   they’re  happening  around  you,  having  that  outward   observation.  The  Introverted  kind,  called  Perspectives,  that’s   more  about  gaining  insight  and  perceiving  inner  patterns,   things  going  on  in  your  own  mind  and  inside  the  mind  of   others  by  proxy.         The  description  of  the  FedEx  package,  essentially  asking  a   question  of  your  own  conscious,  that’s  more  how  the   Introverted  version  works,  how  Perspectives  works.     Exploration  doesn’t  really  give  you  that  lag  time,  because  it   happens  right  away.    There’s  no  back  and  forth  process.    It’s   just,  “Here’s  what’s  going  on.    I  don’t  know  how  I  know  it,  I  just   know  it.”   Antonia:  

Right,  and  so  obviously  a  form  of  intuition  that  is  more   outwardly  demonstrated,  that  extraverted  form,  that’s  going   to  look  behaviorally  very  different  than  the  Introverted  or   inward  form.    When  you’re  expressing  extraverted  intuition,  or   as  Camronn  said,  we  call  it  Exploration,  generally  what  that  is,   is  you’re  pushing  a  lot  of  buttons  in  life.    You’re  trying  to  figure   out  the  pattern  of  how  something  works  while  it’s  actually   happening.  That  means  a  lot  of  testing,  a  lot  of  toggle  switches,   a  lot  of  button  pushing.       This  could  be  in  people,  you’re  trying  to  figure  out  how   somebody  ticks.  You  kind  of  push  their  buttons  a  little  bit,  just   to  see  how  they  respond.  As  they  respond,  you’re  immediately   taking  in  the  pattern  of  who  they  are,  of  their  behavior.     Extraverted  Intuition  or  Exploration  looks  very…  almost  

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mischievous  sometimes,  but  it’s  a  test  iterate  process  on  the   outside  world.         The  Introverted  Intuition  type,  the  type  that  you  guys  called   the  FedEx  package  that  you  send  to  your  unconscious  mind   and  it  gives  you  some  information  and  shoots  the  answer  back   to  you  in  a  nice  little  package,  that’s  more  thoughtful  and   contemplative.    It  goes  inward,  so  that’s  usually  a  quiet  time.     That’s  a  time  when  you  go  inside  your  mind  and  basically  allow   your  unconscious  mind  to  make  those  or  form  those  patterns   for  you.  Behaviorally,  the  two  look  very  different.   Camronn:   Yeah.    What  I’m  about  to  say  is  a  little  beyond  the  scope  of  this   call,  but  there  are  actually  a  total  of  eight  mental  processes   that  people  use.    Intuition,  both  forms  are  two  of  those   processes.    Of  the  eight,  though,  the  extraverted  form  of   intuition  is  the  quickest  thought  process  that  people  have   access  to.  The  Introverted  version  is…  obviously  has  benefits  as   well,  but  it  does  operate  a  lot  slower.   Host:  

Okay,  so  you  guys  have  mentioned  people  who  have  intuition   as  a  strength.  I  guess  people  who  have  intuition  as  a  strength,   we  would  refer  to  those  as  Intuitives.    What  percent  of  the   population  are  we  talking  about  and  what  does  it  mean  when   somebody  doesn’t  have  intuition  as  a  strength?  

Antonia:  

People  who  are  highly  intuitive  make  up  approximately  25   percent  of  the  population.  What  we  mean  by  highly  intuitive  is   we  mean  that  they  either  lead  with  intuition,  this  mental   process,  it’s  something  they’re  using  all  the  time.    It’s  their   primary  way  of  interaction  with  the  world,  or  they’re  guided  by   it.    It’s  something  that  they  reference  a  lot  for  information.       People  who  are  either  leading  with  intuition,  either  form,   either  the  extraverted  or  the  Introverted  form,  or  are  guided   by  either  of  those  forms  of  intuition,  make  a  very  small   percentage  of  the  population,  only  25  percent.    Now  that  

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sounds  pretty  high,  but  really  when  you’re  looking  at  just  two   different  styles—and  so  the  other  style  would  be  a  full  75   percent  of  the  population,  that  25  percent  is  relatively  small.     Going  into  that  other  75  percent,  how  do  they  do  it,  right?    If   that  25  percent  is  doing  it  through  that  pattern  recognition   software,  mental  software,  how  is  the  other  75  percent  doing   it?    They’re  basically  taking  information  in  through  verifiable,   concrete  information.       They  do  that  through  their  five  senses.    They  take  in   information  that  they  know  they  can  rely  upon.    They’re  not   allowing  their  mind  to  just  sort  of  come  up  with  an  answer.     That’s  not  as  reliable  to  them  as  knowing  what’s  actually   happening  in  the  world.    They  are  far  more  comfortable  using   their  five  sense  and  collating  the  information  their  five  senses   give  them,  as  opposed  to  defaulting  to  that  Intuitive   preference.   Camronn:   Right.    Another  way  to  put  it  is  everyone  gets  those  flashes  of   insight  from  time  to  time.    People  that  have  developed   intuition  as  a  strength,  that  25  percent  of  the  population,   they’re  the  ones  that,  to  a  large  degree,  trust  and  cultivate   those  flashes  of  insight.    The  other  75  percent  of  the   population  does  get  them  from  time  to  time,  but  they  don’t   know  where  this  information  is  coming  from  so  they  don’t   trust  it,  for  understandable  reasons.    To  them  it’s  really   important  to  be  solid  in  what  you  know,  and  to  know  how  you   arrived  at  your  conclusions.       Instead  of  paying  attention  to  these  insights,  they  ignore  them   and  thereby  don’t  build  that  strength  up,  don’t  build  up  that   ability.  Instead,  they  focus  on  what  they  can  directly  observe   with  their  senses.    Both  strategies  have  enormous  advantages   and  one  is  not  better  than  the  other,  but  it  leads  to  two  very   different  kinds  of  people.  

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Host:  

Okay,  so  25  percent  of  the  population  has  intuition  as  a   strength.  In  a  sense,  it  sounds  like  the  other  75  percent  are   really  focusing  on  the  five  senses,  and  that’s  their  strength.   You  could  say  that  intuition,  in  a  sense,  is  a  sixth  sense,  which   is  how  it  has  been  referred  to.    It’s  the  sixth  sense  of  pattern   recognition.       It’s  not  actually  a  “sense”  in  the  same  way  that  the  five  senses   work,  it’s  more  of  a  processing  mechanism  that  the   unconscious  mind  has.    Intuitives  then  are  generally  spending   more  time  focusing  on  that  pattern  recognition  mechanism   and  Sensors.  The  other  75  percent  of  the  population  are   focusing  more  on  the  five  senses  for  information.  

Antonia:  

Right.    The  reason  why  we  have  the  hubris  to  say  “science”  of   intuition  is  because  there  is  scientific  evidence  for  this.    If  you   hook  somebody  up  to  an  EEG  machine  that  has  an  intuitive   preference,  and…  what’s  that?  

Camronn:   An  EEG  machine  that  has  an  intuitive  preference?    That’s  a   pretty  cool  machine.   Antonia:  

Shut  up.  (laughter)  You  know  I  meant  the  person.      

Camronn:   Yeah,  yeah,  yeah.   Antonia:  

Don’t  pay  attention  to  him.    He  doesn’t  know  what  he’s  talking   about.     All  right.    If  you  hook  a  person  with  an  intuitive  preference  up   to  an  EEG  machine  and  you  put  them  in  a  state  of  pattern   recognition,  their  entire  brains  light  up  like  a  Christmas  tree.    It   really  is,  when  you  lead  with  intuition,  it  really  is  something   that  puts  you  in  a  flow  state.       We  have  a  very  good  friend  at  UCLA  named  Dario  Nardi,  who   has  done  these  experiments.    He’s  hooked  people  up  to  the   EEG  machine,  he’s  watched  their  brain  patterns  as  he  puts  

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them  in  positions  or  states  where  they’re  using  their  intuition   or  this  pattern  recognition,  and  it  does…  their  entire  brains   light  up.     Now,  whether  they  lead  with  that  Extraverted  Intuition  or  the   Introverted  Intuition,  that  makes  a  difference.    If  they  have  a   preference  for  Extraverted  Intuition,  then  they  need  to  be   doing  that  kind  of  activity  in  order  for  their  brain  to  light  up,   and  vice  versa.         It’s  just  the  opposite  with  people  who  have  a  Sensory   preference,  who  rely  on  their  five  senses.    When  you  hook   them  up  to  an  EEG  machine  and  you  put  them  in  a  situation   where  they  are  thinking  about  the  past  or  thinking  about   situations  that  they’re  currently  experiencing,  where  they’ve   got  their  senses  engaged,  their  brains  light  up  like  a  Christmas   tree.    Really  using  that  sophisticated  technological  machinery,   it  really  shows  that  the  brains  are  responding  to  these  different   kinds  of  information  gathering  techniques,  and  that’s  why  we   call  it  the  “science  of  intuition.”   Host:  

Okay.    Just  to  explore  a  little  bit  about  what  the  alternative  to   intuition  looks  like,  tell  me  a  little  bit  about  what  Sensors…   what  does  their  lifestyle  generally  look  like,  just  to  contrast   first?    What  kind  of  a  life  does  a  Sensor  live  and  what   emotional  states  are  they  generally  seeking?    Tell  me  a  little   about  that.  

Camronn:   We  described  the  thought  processes  that  Sensory  people  use  a   little  bit.    They  like  information  that  is  solid.    They  like  to  be   able  to  verify  where  their  knowledge  comes  from.    They  like  to   be  sure  of  things.    As  a  main  way  of  interacting  with  the  world   over  a  lifetime,  that’s  going  to  create  a  person  that  looks  for   security,  safety,  comfort  and  stability.       People  that  use  that  ability,  the  Sensory  preferences,  tend  to   lead  stable  lives.  They  tend  to  be  driven  by  a  desire  for   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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comfort,  and  that’s  not,  “I’ve  got  to  be  comfortable  all  the   time,  bring  me  grapes  on  my  Barcalounger.”  It’s  just,  they’re   looking  to  create  that  in  their  lives,  so  they  tend  to  create  very   comfortable  surroundings.    They  tend  to  live  in  one  place  for  a   long  time.    They  tend  to  be  stable  and  kind  of  the  backbone  of   society.       Antonia:  

They  have  a  real  talent  for  contentment.    In  a  moment  when   things  are  good,  they  will  experience  that  moment  fully.    That’s   important  to  them,  to  be  able  to  fully  experience  a  moment  of   contentment.    That’s  really  a  talent,  especially  if  you’re  coming   from  an  Intuitive  perspective,  and  this  is  one  of  the  major   contrasts  between  the  two.       If  you’re  questioning  in  your  mind  right  now,  “Do  I  have  an   Intuitive  preference?    Do  I  lead  with  intuition  or  am  I  guided  by   it?”  this  is  one  of  the  best  ways  to  determine  whether  or  not   you  are  Intuitive.       When  you  have  a  moment  of  contentment,  when  everything   should  be  right,  are  you  still  a  little  restless?    Do  you  climb   summits  just  to  get  to  the  top  of  it,  feel  for  one  second,  “That   was  awesome,  look  at  what  I  did,”  and  then  instantly  go,   “What’s  the  next  summit?”    There’s  a  restlessness  that   Intuitives  have,  based  on  fundamentally  when  just  peel  it   down,  that  pattern  recognition,  that  makes  them  want  to   know,  “What’s  the  next  pattern?    What’s  the  next  piece  of   information  that  I’m  missing?”  Intuitives  do  not  have  a  talent   for  being  content.    They  have  a  talent  for  being  restless.         The  reason  why  I  call  it  a  talent  is  that  restlessness  means  a  lot   of  innovation.    It  means  a  lot  of  reinventing  the  wheel,  when   other  people  would  not  understand  why  you  would  want  to  do   that.    When  you  reinvent  the  wheel,  sometimes  you  get  just   like  the  best,  most  awesome  wheel  ever.  It’s  an  Intuitive   generally,  who  wants  to  do  that.    They  want  to  see  how  they  

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can  make  what  they  have,  turn  it  even  better.   Host:  

Yeah,  it’s  fascinating.    If  you’re  listening  to  this,  you  may  have   guessed  that  the  three  of  us  sitting  here  have  an  Intuitive   preference.    We  are…  we  have  intuition  as  a  strength  in   various  ways.  As  you  describe  what  the  life  of  a  Sensor  would   be  like  and  what  the  things  are  that  they  are  generally  moving   toward:  comfort,  safety,  security,  stability;  when  I  hear  that,  I   immediately  go,  “Aw,  man.    I  respect  that.”  Because  like   Camronn  said,  they  make  up  the  backbone  of  society.       At  the  same  time,  to  me  that  sounds  completely  boring,  you   know?    Just  not  at  all  exciting.    I,  for  myself,  I  definitely  identify   with  the  experience  of  climbing  to  the  top  of  a  summit  and   immediately  going,  “That  was  awesome.    What’s  next?    What   are  we  doing  next?”  If  you  identify  with  that,  you  might  be  an   Intuitive.       What  are  some  other  ways  that  someone  might  know  that   they’re…  or  might  be  able  to  tell  if  they’re  an  Intuitive?  

Camronn:   Intuitives…  okay,  actually,  let  me  say  this  a  different  way.     Sensors  and  Intuitives  tend  to  have  different  natural   communication  styles.  I  mean  very  different.    Intuitives  speak   in  abstractions  and  patterns  and  principals.    Sensors  tend  to   talk  in  concretes  and  specifics,  and  about  realities.    Everyone   has  the  capacity  to  talk  about  both,  of  course,  but  we  all  have   a  strong  preference  for  one  or  the  other.       Since  Sensors  are  such  an  enormous  majority  of  the   population,  most  Intuitives  have  learned  how  to  speak  in   Sensory  terms  and  they  have  to  do  it  the  bulk  of  the  time  in   the  world  when  they’re  interacting  with  others.    They’re   having  to  kind  of  speak  in  these  concrete  specifics,  and  it   doesn’t  feel  natural  to  them.    It  feels  unnatural.       One  of  the  common  experiences  that  Intuitives  have  is  that   they  feel  like  they  know  the  people  around  them  quite  well,   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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but  the  people  around  them  don’t  know  the  Intuitive  very  well.     They’re  probably  not  aware  of  that.  Say  I’m  an  Intuitive  and  I   have  this  group  of  friends.    I  might  feel  like  I  know  them  very   well,  but  I  might  feel  like  they  don’t  know  me  that  well  at  all.   Antonia:  

Yeah.    An  excellent  illustration  a  friend  of  ours  came  up  with  is   that  it’s  like  being  left-­‐handed  in  a  right-­‐handed  world.    You’re   a  person  just  like  everybody  else  is  a  person,  but  you’ve  got   this  manual  difference  that  makes  everything  just  a  little   different.    If  you’re  a  left-­‐hander  and  you’ve  ever  tried  to  use   right-­‐handed  scissors,  it  just  doesn’t  work.    If  you  have  tried  to   use  a  can  opener  and  you’re  left-­‐handed,  a  right-­‐handed  can   opener,  it’s  just  really  complicated  and  difficult.    You  learn  to   sort  of  figure  it  out.    You  learn  to  try  to  make  yourself  a  little   ambidextrous,  but  you  know  you  still  have  a  preference  for   left-­‐handedness.       Since  the  numbers  are  pretty  much  kind  of  the  same,  there’s  a   much  smaller  percentage  of  left-­‐handed  people  than  right-­‐ handed,  it’s  really  an  apt  illustration  for  showing  how  Intuitives   basically  learn  to  sort  of  be  ambidextrous  when  it  comes  to   that  Sensor-­‐Intuitive  split  but  they  always,  always,  always  have   a  preference  for  intuition.    If  a  left-­‐handed  person  runs  into  a   pair  of  left-­‐handed  scissors,  the  relief  is  palpable.    They’re  like,   “Oh,  my  gosh.    I’m  so  glad  that  I  have  left-­‐handed  scissors  and  I   can  actually  cut  and  I  don’t  have  to  struggle.”       When  Intuitives  meet  another  Intuitive,  that’s  the  same  sense   of  relief  that  they  get,  because  now  they  can  speak  in  their   language.    They  can  speak  in  abstractions  and  ideas,  and  they   know  the  other  person  will  basically  understand  where  they’re   coming  from.  

Camronn:   The  question  was  basically,  how  do  you  know  you’re  Intuitive   or  Sensor?    What  are  the  experiences  that  Intuitives  have?     Because  of  that  kind  of  communication  difference,  the   experience  Intuitives  have  is  that  they  feel  that  –  and  they   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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might  be  right  –  that  they  know  the  people  around  them   better  than  the  people  around  them  know  the  individual,   because  they’ve  learned  how  to  translate  because  they’ve  had   to.    Whereas  the  Sensors  haven’t  learned  how  to  speak  in  an   Intuitive  style  because  they  haven't  had  to,  because  they   pretty  much  always  have  someone  around  that  speaks  in  the   way  they  understand.   Antonia:  

Right,  exactly.    You  get  a  little  kind  of  mentally  ambidextrous,   but  you  still  definitely  have  a  preference.    We  were  talking   about  some  of  the  parallels.    What  does  that  mean,  a  left-­‐ handed  person  is  like  an  Intuitive  person?    I  use  the  example  of   scissors,  can  openers.    They  had  a  very  hilarious  bit  on  gravy   ladles,  how  the  spout  is  always  on  the  wrong  side,  so  you  end   up  pouring  gravy  all  over  you  if  you’re  left-­‐handed  and  you’re   using  a  right-­‐handed  gravy  ladle.         Some  of  the  parallels  for  Intuitives  is  that  Intuitives,  when   they’re  on  a  job,  as  soon  as  they’ve  mastered  their  job  they’re   bored.    Now  they  want  something  else.    Whereas  most  people,   once  they’ve  mastered  their  job,  they’re  relieved  because  now   they  can  do  it  really  efficiently  and  effectively.    But  for  an   Intuitive,  the  second  they  master  it,  it’s  over  and  now  they   want  something  else  to  master.    It’s  a  major,  major  bedrock  of   the  Intuitive  personality  type.     Intuitives  are  always  looking  for  something  new,  instead  of   sticking  with  what  works,  which  seems  sort  of  counter-­‐intuitive   but  it’s  very  much  a  part  of  that  restlessness  in  wanting  to  find   the  next  best  thing.    They  tend  to  approach  life  as  an   experiment.    It’s  all  a  test  iterate  process.    It  feels  like,  when   they’re  seeking  advice,  most  other  people’s  advice  doesn’t   seem  to  really  work  for  them.     Those  are  some  of  the  parallels.    If  you  are  an  Intuitive,  that  is   your  right-­‐handed  scissors.    Getting  to  a  job,  mastering  it  and   being  bored,  and  the  relief  is  when  you  have  a  job  where  you  

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can  continually  master  a  new  trade.    That’s  you  finding  your   left-­‐handed  pair  of  scissors.    Those  are  some  of  the  ways  that   you  can  really  identify  whether  or  not  you’re  an  Intuitive.   Host:  

I  love  the  illustration  of  left-­‐handedness  versus  right-­‐ handedness.    I’ve  tried…  I’m  a  right-­‐hander,  and  I’ve  tried  using   left-­‐handed  scissors  before,  and  I  can  tell  you  what  happens.     They  just  don’t  cut.    It  doesn’t…  they  don’t  work.    I  imagine  it’s   the  same  for  left-­‐handers  trying  to  use  right-­‐handed  scissors.     They  just  don’t  cut.       If  you  an  Intuitive  in  a  Sensor  world  and  you’re  trying  to  do   things  the  Sensor  way,  you’re  trying  to  live  the  Sensor   lifestyle—and  the  Sensor  lifestyle  is  generally,  you  go  to  high   school,  you  graduate,  you  go  to  college,  you  get  a  degree,  you   get  a  good  job,  you  settle  down,  white  picket  fence,  get   married,  few  kids,  grandkids.  Just  contentment,  stability,   security.  It’s  almost  a  template  for  life.    My  experience  has   been  that  for  Sensors,  that  works  great.    That’s  fantastic  for   them  because  they  love,  sort  of,  the  security  that  that   template  creates,  because  it’s  tried  and  true.    If  it’s  not  broke,   why  would  you  try  to  fix  it?    It  works  for  them.         As  an  Intuitive,  that  would  not  work  for  me  at  all,  just  the  same   way  that  left-­‐handed  scissors  would  not  work  for  me  at  all.     Since  the  world,  since  75  percent  of  the  population  has  this   sensory  preference,  75  percent  of  the  people  who  are  giving   you  advice  are  going  to  give  you  the  advice  that  says,  “Just  be   safe.    Just  be  secure.    Just  do  this.    Just  follow  this  template.”     For  an  Intuitive,  the  template  is  a  prison.    It’s  something  that   you’ve  got  to  break  out  of.    That  would  be  intolerable  for  us.       What  I  find  is  that  one  of  the  things  that’s  really  important  to   me  is  to  give  myself  permission  to  be  different  than  75  percent   of  the  population,  to  give  myself  permission  rather  than  trying   to  fit  into  the  sensory  life  template,  to  actually  design  my  own   lifestyle.    Because  Intuitives  are  never  going  to  be  happy  with  

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the  lifestyle  that’s  been  lived  before.    We  need  to  create   something  that’s  never  been  done  before,  and  design  our  own   lifestyles.         How  can  people  give  themselves  permission  to  carve  out  their   own  lifestyle?   Antonia:  

That’s  an  absolutely  excellent  question.    As  you  can  imagine,  if   you’ve  got  those  ratios,  75  to  25,  most  people  who  are   Intuitive  were  raised  by  at  least  one  if  not  both  Sensory   parents.    The  information  they’ve  been  given  their  whole  life   from  parents  and  then  from  teachers  and  then  from   classmates  and  friends…  Most  people  run  into  other  Intuitives.   Again,  like  I  said,  that  feeling  of  relief  is  palpable,  that  they  can   just  kind  of  connect  to  the  broadband  and  exchange  ideas.     Most  Intuitives  feel  like  they  don’t  really  have  a  choice.    They   have  to  live  that  template  type  life,  and  they  get  a  lot  of   feedback  that  says  that.    They  get  comments  like,  “Why  aren’t   you  having  kids?    You’re  old  enough,  why  aren’t  you  settling   down  and  having  kids?”    Or,  “It’s  time  to  grow  up.    It’s  time  for   you  to  go  get  a  responsible  job.”    You  get  a  lot  of  feedback  that   says  that  where  you  are  in  life,  if  you  try  to  break  the  mold,   you’re  somehow  immature.    Somehow  you’re  less  developed   than  other  people.    It’s  very  difficult  for  an  Intuitive  to  give   themselves  permission  to  break  the  mold,  because  they   haven’t  been  given  permission  by  anybody  else.       It’s  not  really…  it’s  not  anybody’s  fault.    It’s  not  because   anybody’s  out  to  get  anybody  else.    It’s  just  a  matter  of  lack  of   information  and  ratios  of  numbers.     Now,  again,  I  just  want  to  reiterate  before  we  go  on,  Sensors   are  not  against  Intuitives  and  Intuitives  are  not  against   Sensors.    Both  are  absolutely  vital  to  keep  the  world  going,  and   they  should  be  working  in  cooperation  with  each  other.     Obviously,  having  stable  foundation  is  how  Intuitives  get  to  

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break  the  molds,  because  who  created  it  in  the  first  place?     Who’s  keeping  it  going?    Obviously  we  need  both  of  them   really.  They’re  both  incredibly  important.    It’s  just  at  this  point,   our  observation  has  been  that  there’s  a  greater  need  for   Intuitives  to  understand  who  they  are,  what  they  are  and  that   they  have  permission  to  break  that  mold.     What  ends  up  happening  is  once  an  Intuitive  discovers  that   they  are  Intuitive,  they  realize  a  couple  of  very  profound   truths.    First  of  all,  there  was  never  anything  wrong  with  them.     They’re  not  wrong  to  be  the  way  that  they  are.    The  second   thing  is  that  even  though  they’re  different,  they’re  not  alone.     There’s  a  percentage  of  population  out  there  that’s  just  like   them,  and  that  they  feel  an  incredibly  important  and  vital  role   on  the  planet.    They  help  get  innovation  going.    They  help   progress  continue.    They’re  the  ones  that  keep  it  so  that  the   world  really  doesn’t  ever  stagnate.    That’s  a  very  vital  role.         Now,  obviously  you  can’t  have  too  many  people  doing  that.     That’s  why  the  population  is  only  25  percent.    It’s  almost   perfectly  designed.    But  you  need  to  be  able  to  give  yourself   permission  to  be  that  innovator.    Obviously  we  need  as  many   innovators  in  that  25  percent  as  we  possibly  can  have.    So  just   understanding  that  you  are  different  but  not  alone  and  that   you  have  full  permission…full  permission  to  break  the  mold,  is   incredibly  important,  incredibly  important  for  people  to   understand  that.   Host:  

It’s  reminding  me  of  the  scene  in  the  movie  “The  Matrix”   where  Neo  finally  gets  to  meet  Morpheus,  and  he  pulls  out  a   blue  pill  and  a  red  pill.  The  blue  pill  basically  means  you  go   back  to  the  safe,  secure,  stable  life  that  you  were  living,   thinking  that  you’re  just  like  everyone  else.  The  red  pill  takes   you  into  a  whole  new  world  where  everything  you’ve  ever   experienced  in  the  world  all  of  a  sudden  makes  sense  and  you   see  the  bigger  picture  now  and  understand  it,  and  now  you  

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have  freedom  and  you  can  live  a  completely  different  life.   Antonia:  

Yeah.    That’s  a  great  illustration  as  well,  because  it  felt  like   Neo,  before  he  took  the  red  pill,  he  resented  his  life.  He   resented  the  place  he  worked,  he  resented  the  people  he   worked  with,  he  resented  everybody  else  for  feeling  like  they   were  just  part  of  the  system.    When  he  finally  took  the  red  pill,   now  he  understood  what  was  going  on.    Now  he  realized  that   nobody  was  out  to  get  anybody  else.    It’s  just  that  was  the   situation  everybody  was  in.    He  had  a  lot  more  compassion  for   people.    He  ended  up  becoming  the  superhero,  a  superhero   that  saves  others,  because  he  finally  understood  what  was   going  on.     When  Intuitives  do  not  understand  that  they’re  Intuitive,  they   don’t  understand  that  this  is  just  a  basic  natural  process  of   basically  humans  having  a  perfect  percentage  of  stabilizers  and   a  perfect  percentage  of  trailblazers,  what  ends  up  happening  is   that  they  try  to  force  themselves  into  the  mold  and  they  get   really  resentful.    They  start  to  see  other  people  as  the  enemy.     Everybody  else  is  an  idiot,  everybody  else  is  plugged  in.     What’s  wrong  with  everybody  else?    Really,  that’s  not  the  way   it  is  at  all.    Once  you  understand  you’re  Intuitive,  now  you   realize  this  is  how  it  should  be.    Everybody’s  filling  the  role  that   they  should  be  filling,  except  for  the  Intuitive.    

Host:  

We’ve  mentioned  that  25  percent  of  the  population  is  Intuitive   or  has  one  of  the  types  of  intuition  as  a  strength,  75  percent   has  sensing  as  a  strength.    We’ve  talked  about  this  before,  and   I’m  going  to  pretend  like  I  wasn’t  part  of  this  conversation   again,  or  these  conversations  that  we’ve  had  many  times.  How   many  Intuitives  are  actually  living  as  Intuitives  and  how  many   are  actually  conforming  to  what  we’re  calling  the  Sensor  life   template?    What  percentage  would  you  say,  roughly?  

Camronn:   That’s  a  really  good  question.  I  don’t  have  a  precise  number  for   you,  but  the  percentage  of  Intuitives  that  have  actually  figured   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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out  how  to  live  with  their  preference  and  work  with  it  as   opposed  to  trying  to  pretend  like  they’re  Sensory,  that   percentage  is  low.       Most  of  them  have  not  figured  that  out.    Most  of  them  do  feel   like  there’s  something  wrong  with  them,  and  that  everyone   else  is  basically  fine  but  something  about  them  just  isn’t  right,   it’s  off.    Instead  of  capitalizing  on  their  gifts,  they  do  end  up   trying  to  imitate  the  Sensor  approach  to  life  and  generally  end   up  doing  a  bad  job  of  it,  because  it’s  really  not  who  they  are.   Host:  

If  you’re  an  Intuitive  and  you’ve  grown  up  like  I  have,  my   whole  life  with  both  of  my  parents  have  a  Sensory  preference,   the  advice  that  I’ve  gotten  my  whole  life  was  this  sort  of,   “Settle  down,  play  by  the  rules,”  and  do  everything  the  way   that  they  did  in  their  lives.    You  now  have  permission,  you  can   now  give  yourself  permission…  I’m  sure  it’s  probably  making  a   lot  of  things  make  sense  from  your  life  history,  if  you  review   your  life  history  and  you  see  those  moments  where  people   have  given  you  that  advice  and  something  felt  off  about  that   for  you,  it’s  probably  starting  to  make  a  little  bit  of  sense.    You   can  kind  of  probably  see  how  you  got  to  where  you  are  now,   and  look  at  how  much  of  that  life  template  you  have  been   trying  to  live  and  how  much  you’re  trying  to  conform  into  it   right  now,  and  give  yourself  the  freedom  and  permission  to   step  into  something  new.     What’s  next?    What  do  we  need  to  know  next  about  this?  

Antonia:  

We  called  this  teleseminar,  “The  Art  and  Science  of  Intuition.”     We’ve  covered  a  lot  of  the  science  elements  of  it,  that  this  is   something  that  is  verifiable  by  scanning  machines,  that   intuition  isn’t  “woo-­‐woo.”    It’s  advanced  pattern  recognition.   The  reason  why  we  call  it  art  is  clearly  there  is  an  art  to  living   as  an  Intuitive,  all  right?  If  you  know  that  you’re  Intuitive  and   you’ve  been  sort  of  going  with  the  molds  and  you’ve  had  the   experience  of  not  having  permission  to  break  out  of  it,  you’re  

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not  living  as  an  Intuitive  very  artfully.    It’s  probably  something   that  feels  very  itchy,  confining  and  like  a  prison.       The  art  of  living  as  an  Intuitive  is  being  able  to  fully  embrace   that  preference,  breaking  out  of  the  mold,  designing  new   molds,  going  out  there  and  basically  shaking  up  the  world,   making  it  completely  different,  but  the  way  that  you  feel  that  it   needs  to  be.         Now,  you  and  I  had  this  conversation  before,  and  we  were   talking  about  what  some  of  the  possibilities  are.    If  everybody   that’s  Intuitive  knew  that  they  were  an  Intuitive  and  they  knew   everybody  else  was  a  Sensor  and  they  fully  embraced  both  of   those,  what  would  the  world  look  like?     All  right,  so  what  kind  of  world  would  we  be  in  if  everybody   knew  what  their  preference  was,  gave  themselves  and  each   other  full  permission  to  be  as  we  are?  What  would  the  world   look  like?    You  would  have  people  giving  other  people   permission  to  break  the  mold,  because  they  knew  that  that   was  who  they  were  designed  to  be.    You  would  have  those   trailblazers  giving  the  people  who  more  are  suited  towards   stabilizing  the  world  full  permission  to  be  doing  that.    The  only   way  we  can  do  it  is  by  identifying  each  other  and  supporting   each  other.         You  mentioned  “Heroes,”  the  TV  show  “Heroes,”  and  how  all   of  the  people  who  had  superhero  powers  basically  were  in   hiding.    Do  you  remember  that?   Camronn:   Yeah.    The  TV  show  “Heroes,”  it’s  canceled  now,  but  it  was  a   pretty  good  show.    I  enjoyed  it  because  the  way  that  it  started   was  you  would  see  these  very  normal  people  living  normal   lives,  who  all  of  a  sudden  discovered  that  they  had   superpowers  and  they  didn’t  quite  know  what  to  do  about  it.   They  didn’t  know  what  to  think,  didn’t  know  who  to  tell.  Over   time,  as  the  show  moved  forward,  they  started  finding  each   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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other.    They  started  seeing  other  people  who  had  superpowers   and  they  came  together  and  sort  of  started  to  cluster  into   groups,  because  they  had  something  in  common  that  they   could  share  with  each  other,  they  could  talk  about.  They  could   give  each  other  advice,  they  could  help  each  other  use  their   powers  more  effectively.       I  think  that  really  does  parallel  a  lot  with  intuition.    If  you  are   an  Intuitive,  you  have  superpowers  that  most  of  the  world   doesn’t  have.    The  stuff  that  you  can  do  with  pattern   recognition  that  just  comes  really  automatically  to  you  and  it’s   fun  and  it’s  the  stuff  that  lights  you  up  when  you  do  it,  most   people  can’t  do  that.    When  you  realize  that,  when  you   recognize  that  you  have  a  gift  that’s  different,  to  me…     You  were  talking  about  what  the  world  looks  like.  The  world   that  I  see  is  one  where  the  75  percent  of  the  population  who   has  the  Sensory  preference,  they  enjoy  maintaining  the  status   quo.    They  enjoy  what  I  call  “keeping  the  current  machine   running.”    There’s  a  machine,  a  system  in  our  world.  We  have   systems  of  government,  we  have  religious  systems,  we  have   family  systems,  we  have  social  systems.    We  have  ways  of   doing  things  that  are  customary  and  the  people  with  the   Sensory  preference,  they  enjoy  and  they’re  very  good  at   keeping  those  machines  running.         People  with  an  Intuitive  preference  want  to  test  the   boundaries.    We  want  to  stretch  the  envelope.    We  want  to  try   something  that’s  never  been  done  before.    If  75  percent  of  the   population  is  keeping  the  current  machine  running,  that’s   going  to  make  sure  that  nobody  gets  hurt  basically.    Not  that   people  won’t  ever  get  hurt,  but  it’s  making  sure  that  this  one’s   not  going  to  break.    Then  with  25  percent  of  people  innovating,   coming  up  with  new  stuff,  reinventing  the  wheel,  challenging   the  status  quo,  challenging  assumptions,  challenging  long  held   beliefs,  that  makes  room  for  progress.    

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I  see,  from  my  perspective,  the  job  of  Intuitives  on  the  planet  is   to  drive  human  progress  forward.    If  everybody  was  an   Intuitive,  which  sounds  like  it  would  be  great,  the  way  that  we   tend  to  describe  it  is  it  would  be  the  best  summer  ever.    Then   it  would  all  be  over,  because  we  would  not  have  prepared  for   the  winter,  we  would  not  have  done  anything  to  keep  the   current  machine  running.    We’d  build  a  new  machine  and  we’d   keep  building.    We’d  keep  reinventing  the  machine,  and  it   would  never  have  an  opportunity  to  stabilize  because  it’s   constantly  morphing  into  something  else.   Antonia:  

Right.  Going  back  to  what  you  were  talking  about  with   “Heroes,”  what  I  thought  was  so  awesome  about  that  is   essentially  what  the  superheroes  were  doing  is  that  they  were   cross-­‐pollinating.    They  were  mentoring  each  other.    They   helped  each  other  get  better  at  their  powers,  just  by  the  fact   that  they  were  communicating  with  each  other.         Camronn  and  I  have  done  a  lot  of  coaching.    We’ve  coached  a   lot  of  people,  both  Sensors  and  Intuitives,  and  we’ve  noticed   that  with  the  Intuitives  that  we’ve  coached,  just  by  having  the   opportunity  to  talk  to  them  about  what  our  life  experience  has   been,  getting  their  life  experience  from  them  and  giving  them   permission  to  be  who  they  are,  they  supercharge.    In  that   minute,  in  that  instant,  they  go,  “Oh!    I  have  permission  to  be   like  me  and  there  are  more  like  me?”  That’s  all  they  need.     They  just  take  off.    It’s  really  incredible.    That  Intuitive  cross-­‐ pollination  happens  when  we  work  with  each  other  and  we   find  each  other.  

Camronn:   I  was  talking  with  a  gentleman  this  last  weekend,  and  basically   just  in  the  five  minutes  or  so  we  were  talking,  discussed  the   Intuitive-­‐Sensor  difference.  He  was  an  Intuitive.    His  entire   demeanor  changed.    His  posture  changed,  his  face  lit  up,  and   he  said,  “I  feel  about  two  inches  taller.”    He  actually  was,   because  he  was  standing  up  as  opposed  to  slouching  a  little  bit   like  he  had  been  before.    It  was  just  like  a  light  bulb  went  off   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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that  he  had  been  waiting  for  for  a  very  long  time.       Antonia:  

Exactly.  This  has  become  something  that’s  sort  of  a  passion   project  for  us,  personally.    We  see  so  many  different…  we’ve   seen  so  many  Intuitives  living  a  life  that  is  uncomfortable  for   them,  is  not  bringing  any  happiness,  is  basically  that  itchy   prison  of  a  life  that  they  don’t  want  to  continue  leading.  The   work  that  we  do  with  Intuitives,  it  gives  them  an  ability  just  like   finally,  again,  I’m  going  to  use  the  word  permission,  to  live  the   life  that  they  were  really  designed  to  do.         Now,  that  doesn’t  mean  it’s  easy,  but  it  definitely  is  in  their   strengths.    They’re  so  much  more  in  their  element  if  they’re   living  that  kind  of  life.    We  realize,  what  sort  of  spawned  from   this,  and  in  an,  “Oh,  duh,”  moment,  is  that  most  of  us…  if  we   think  about  what  our  lives  would  have  been  if  as  little  kids  we   had  an  Intuitive  mentor  that  said,  “All  right.    You’re  showing   signs  of  pattern  recognition.    You’re  Intuitive.    You  need  to  not   be  living  life  like  everybody  else.”    If  as  a  little  kid  we  had  had   that  and  then  somebody  to  basically  coach  us  through  our  lives   and  teach  us  how  to  be  the  best  Intuitive  possible,  I  can’t  even   imagine  what  my  life  would  be  like  right  now.    I  can’t  even   imagine.    Can  you?  

Host:  

No.  I  just  imagine  having  someone  there  saying,  “Go  for  it.    The   stuff  that  you  want  to  do,  all  these  ideas  that  you  have,  all  the   curiosity  that  you  have  about  the  way  the  world  works…  let’s   figure  it  out.    Let’s  make  something  out  of  this.    Let’s  do  it.”   Somebody  sort  of  nurturing  you  and  supporting  you  and   mentoring  you,  or  me  in  this  case,  through  that  process,  would   have  been…  my  life  would  be  completely  different  from  how  it   is  now.    Although,  I’m  catching  up.  

Antonia:  

Right.    Quickly.  

Host:  

Yeah.    Very  quickly.    Having  this…  not  only  the  understanding   about  being  an  Intuitive,  but  also  we’ve  started  to  create  an  

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Intuitive  community  where  we  can  have  Intuitive   conversations.    One  of  the  things,  I  grew  up  in  a  small  town,   and  my  typical…  sort  of  the  archetypal  vision  that  I  have  or   memory  that  I  have  of  what  it  was  like,  was  I  would  have  some   big  idea  that  I  wanted  to  share  with  somebody  and  I  was  really   excited  about  it  and  I  couldn’t  hold  it  in.  I  couldn’t  contain   myself.    I’d  share  it  with  somebody  who  had  a  Sensory   preference,  which  was  most  of  the  people  in  the  small  town  I   grew  up  in,  and  the  reaction  that  I  tended  to  get  was  “Wow.     You’re  real  smart,  aren’t  you?”  It  was  just  like  I  felt  so  deflated,   because  I  had  this  precious  diamond  that  I  wanted  to  share   with  this  person,  and  they  didn’t  realize.  They  thought  it  was  a   rhinestone.       Antonia:  

Again,  I  want  to  pose  the  question,  “Just  imagine  from  the  time   that  you  were  a  little  kid,  you  had  a  mentor  that  helped  you   understand  what  it  meant  to  be  Intuitive  and  gave  you   permission  to  be  a  little  different  than  everybody  else.    What   would  your  life  be  like?”    Pretty  different.    Pretty  different.   Pretty  powerfully  different.       We  realize  that  that  is  an  imperative  that  the  world  needs.    I   don’t  know  of  any  other  Intuitive  mentorship  program.    I  know   of  a  lot  of  other  personal  development  programs,  and  a  lot  of   them  are  designed  and  made  by  Intuitives.  They  hit  an  element   of  it,  but  I  don’t  know  any  single  program  that  integrates  all  of   these  different  areas  of  life  that  Intuitive  really  struggle  with.         We  designed  one.    We  decided  that  this  was  absolutely   important  for  people  to  have.    Normally,  our  coaching,  our   one-­‐on-­‐one  coaching  and  profiling  sessions  are  about  $500.00.     People  pay  us  $500.00  for  our  coaching  sessions  and  profiling   sessions,  which  isn’t  always  in  everybody’s  price  range.    We   feel  really  strongly  about  the  Intuitive  awakening,  though.    We   feel  really  strongly  that  people  need  a  true…  Intuitives  need  a   true  mentorship  program.      

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We  decided  to  put  together  an  eight-­‐week  course  called  “The   Intuitive  Awakening:  Supercharging  Your  Inner  Trailblazer.”     Eight  different  weeks,  and  each  week  we  will  cover  another   topic  that  we  feel  has  the  highest  leverage  point  for  Intuitives,   has  the  highest,  strongest  leverage  point.       We’ll  be  going  over  things  like  relationships.    How  do  you  find   somebody  who’s  a  really  good  romantic  match  for  you?    Or   how  to  strengthen  the  current  relationship  you  have?    Are  you   both  Intuitives?  Or  perhaps  you  have  a  relationship  with  a   Sensor.  How  to  make  your  communication  better.    What  about   your  family?    Your  other  friendship  relationships,  how  to  boost   them  up.       Camronn:   One  of  the  most  important  things  that  we  cover  is  how  to  find   other  people  that  have  an  Intuitive  preference  in  your   community,  in  your  group  of  friends,  and  how  to  form  a  tribe.     Intuitives  have  a  very  primal  fundamental  need,  and  I  don’t  say   need  lightly.    I  mean  that  very  specifically.    It’s  a  need  to  have   conversation  with  other  Intuitives  and  kind  of  allow   themselves  to  communicate  in  a  way  that’s  natural  to  them   and  explore  their  way  of  seeing  the  world.    This  need,  for  most   of  us,  is  so  chronically  unmet  that  we’re  not  even  aware  it’s   there.    But  once  you  start  spending  some  time  with  other   people  that  have  an  Intuitive  preference,  light  bulbs  go  off  and   you  start  to  feel  like  a  human  being,  more  so  than  you  ever   have  before.         How  to  find  other  Intuitive  people  in  your  community  and   group,  and  how  to  create  a  tribe  is  one  of  the  most  important   things  that  we’re  going  to  cover.   Host:  

What  I’ll  be  teaching,  primarily,  is  going  to  be  about  how  to   identify  exactly  where  you  are  in  your  personal  development   process,  in  your  evolution  as  a  human  being  on  the  planet,  and   how  to  identify  the  next  critical  step  for  your  growth.    We’re   going  to  talk  about  how  to  move  forward  in  life.    Again,  as  

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Intuitives,  we  like  to  climb  those  summits  and  as  soon  as  we   get  to  the  top,  immediately  look  for  the  next  summit.    I’m   going  to  explain  to  you  what  that  path  looks  like,  what  those   summits  look  like,  and  how  to  know,  at  any  time,  what  the   next  summit  is  for  you.     We’re  going  to  take  some  questions  now.    Our  first  question   comes  from  Mao,  who  is  in  Costa  Rica.    Hi,  Mao.    Thanks  for   joining  us  here  on  the  call.    He  says,  “Hey,  guys,  glad  to  be  a   part  of  this.    As  an  Introverted  Intuitive,  I  react  very   aggressively  to  some  people’s  button  pushing  because  it  feels   like  they’re  coming  from  a  negative  place,  like  they’re  not   doing  it  to  recognize  patterns,  but  to  do  harm  and  push   negatively.    Could  it  be  that  my  brain’s  recognizing  the  harmful   pattern,  or  is  it  that  I’m  just  not  understanding  where  they’re   coming  from  as  Extraverts?    I  ask  because  it  doesn’t  always   come  off  in  a  negative  way  when  people  are  testing  me,  only   sometimes  coming  from  certain  persons.”   Camronn:   Hey  Mao,  this  is  Camronn.    It’s  a  good  question.    Honestly,  I   would  say  actually  the  answer  is  probably  a  little  of  both.     There  are  times  when  people  are  doing  their  button  pushing   and  it  comes  across  a  little  harsher  than  they  might  intend.     There  might  be  no  negative  intent  there  at  all,  and  you’re  just   kind  of  picking  up  on  maybe  some  clumsiness.    People  that   have  the  Introverted  version  of  intuition  as  a  strength  have  a   real  strong  sensitivity  to  others.    It  can  be  very  intensely   sensitive,  actually,  so  it  can  be  easy  to  pick  up  on  someone   else’s  interaction  as  being  a  little  bit  harsh.     The  other  thing  is  that  there  could  be  some  non-­‐altruistic   intent  that  you’re  picking  up  on.    It’s  a  little  of  both.    I  would   say  try  to  reserve  judgment,  and  just  acknowledge  that  other   people  do  have  a  very  different  process.    If  you  have   Introverted  Intuition  as  a  strength,  you’re  not  going  to  be  a   button  pusher  as  much.    You’re  going  to  be  kind  of  getting   answers  to  your  questions  internally,  as  opposed  to  externally,   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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so  you’re  not  going  to  need  to  prod  people  and  things  to  get   more  information.    What  other  people  are  doing  isn’t   necessary  for  you,  so  it  is  going  to  take  a  little  bit  of  a  stretch   to  really  see  where  they’re  coming  from.   Antonia:  

Another  element  is—actually,  two  things.    First,  remembering   that  everybody  fundamentally  has  positive  intent  really  helps.     That  nobody  is  trying  to  hurt  anybody  else,  they’re  all  coming   from  a  positive  place,  even  if  they  do  hurt,  it’s  generally  them   trying  to  defend  something  about  themselves.    Understanding   that  people  generally  have  positive  intent  really  helps  in   understanding  where  other  people  are  coming  from.     The  second  thing  I  was  going  to  say  is  there  are  other  elements   of  our  personalities  beyond  being  Intuitive  that  really  inform   who  we  are  and  how  the  criteria  we  use  to  make  decisions.     Understanding  what  our  decision-­‐making  criteria  are,  that  goes   beyond  intuition.    Intuition  is  just  a  way  that  we  understand   information.    It’s  just  a  way  of  taking  it  in,  recognizing  patterns,   understanding  what’s  going  on.  How  we  decide  the  value  of   that  information  goes  beyond  our  Intuitive  preference,  and   that’s  a  part  of  those  other  elements  of  our  personality.    

Host:  

Okay.    Thanks  Mao,  for  the  question.    We’re  going  to  take  two   more,  really  quickly.    Edward’s  in  New  York.  He  asks,  “What  is   the  number  one  thing  that  an  Intuitive  can  do  to  improve  his   or  her  overall  life?”    That’s  a  pretty  mighty  question,  there,   Edward.    Thanks  for  that  one.    We’re  going  to  do  our  best  to   answer  that  one  in  a  short  period  of  time,  and  we  have  one   more  we’ll  take.  

Camronn:   Hey,  Edward.    This  is  Camronn  again.    Thank  you  for  the   question.    Thank  you  for  wording  it  that  way,  because  that   makes  the  answer  easier.    There’s  lot  of  things  that  Intuitives   can  do  to  improve  their  life  dramatically,  lots  of  little  bits  and   pieces  that  need  to  be  different  than  kind  of  the  life  template   that  we  hear  about  from  parents,  friends,  family,  teachers  and   www.GeniusAwakening.com    

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so  on.       There  is  a  shortcut,  though.    There’s  one  way  to  handle  all   those  little  bits  of  things  you  need  to  do  different,  and  that’s   association.    You  need  to  find  other  Intuitives  and  have  a  lot  of   association  with  them.    Because  just  by  doing  that,  a  whole   bunch  of  other  stuff  is  going  to  get  handled.    You’re  going  to   find  yourself  falling  into  your  own  processes  more,  you’re   going  to  find  yourself  trusting  your  natural  thought  patterns,   and  kind  of  right-­‐sizing  your  life  to  fit  your  style,  because   you’re  seeing  how  other  people  similar  to  you  are  adjusting   their  lives.  That’s  going  to,  by  default,  give  you  permission  to   do  the  same  thing  yourself.    That  is  the  one  thing  that  I  would   recommend  above  anything  else.   Antonia:  

I  would  agree  with  that.    You  actually  said  the  word  that  I  was   going  to  say,  is  the  number  one  thing,  and  I’ve  said  it  a  100   times  so  I  was  just  going  to  be  repeat,  but  that  is  permission.     Giving  yourself  permission  to  be  different  is  one  of…  it’s  the   first  domino.      As  soon  as  you  give  yourself  permission  to  break   the  mold,  all  the  other  things  fall  into  place.    I  would  say   number  one  is  permission,  and  then  absolutely  I’d  piggyback   onto  Camronn’s  answer  and  say  community.    Getting   association,  getting  a  tribe  together,  getting  community,  then   you  get  that  cross-­‐pollination.      

Camronn:   If  I  want  to  be  perfectly  honest,  the  best  thing  an  Intuitive   could  do  to  improve  their  life  is  sign  up  for  our  program.    I  just   didn’t  want  to  be  cheap.    Either  answer  is  good.   Antonia:  

Yeah.    I  would…100  percent  sincerity,  sign  up  for  our  program.     Seriously.    Come,  be  a  part  of  our  mentorship  program.    That’s   one  of  the  biggest,  highest  leverage  points  you  can  do  right   now  as  an  Intuitive.      

Host:  

All  right.    Thanks  guys.       As  Antonia  and  Camronn  have  just  said,  the  number  one  thing  

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an  Intuitive  can  do  to  improve  his  or  her  overall  life  is  to  find  a   tribe  of  Intuitives,  and  that’s  what  it’s  all  about.     Thanks  for  joining  us,  and  we’ll  talk  to  you  soon.   Camronn:   Bye.   Antonia:  

Bye.    Thank  you.  

 

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