
Trust Your Intuition: The Decision-Making Skill No One Teaches
The Contentment Creator · Ellen Broen
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Show Notes
What is intuition… and how can we actually use it to make better decisions?
In this episode, we explore intuition through science, lived experience, and philosophy and how these perspectives come together to guide the choices you make every day.
You’ll discover:
- The science of intuition: how your brain uses fast, unconscious pattern recognition (System 1 thinking) to process millions of signals and deliver a “knowing” without explanation
- The role of the brain’s default mode network—why your best insights often come when you’re walking, driving, or not actively trying to solve the problem
- Why intuition often feels like: “I don’t know why… I just know”
- How your past experiences, emotional signals, and environment are constantly shaping your intuitive responses beneath awareness
But intuition isn’t just something explained in a lab… it’s something people experience every day.
It often shows up as a calm, steady inner knowing.
A quiet voice beneath the noise of overthinking.
A subtle pull toward something or away from it.
And interestingly, many people don’t feel like they lack intuition…
They feel like they’ve ignored it.
You’ll also explore philosophical and spiritual perspectives that describe intuition as a form of inner wisdom and something that becomes clearer when the mind gets quiet.
Not forcing. Not analyzing. Just noticing.
Some describe it as higher awareness.
Others have deeper consciousness.
But the common thread is this: intuition tends to arise when we create space to actually hear it.
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