What’s the biggest unmet need that most Intuitives face?

Leadership with educationWhile discussing the unique needs of Intuitives – or people who use intuition has their primary way of learning information – the same need pops up over and over gain. It’s what we at Personality Hacker call the Greatest Unmet Need of Intuitives. It’s actually pretty simple and very easy, and maybe because of that it’s importance is diminished and gets neglected.

What is that need? Highly abstract, conceptual conversation. It’s conversation that goes beyond the every day norm of chit-chat and ‘catching up’. Subjects like philosophy, ethics, science, idea-generation and possibilities thinking about the future and the meaning of reality. While it may feel great to an Intuitive that engage in this kind of conversation, they may not realize it’s a basic need.

This kind of conversation does two things for Intuitives:

1. It gives them energy, amps us up, and helps them see possibilities they hadn’t considered before. It’s like food for the mind, or mental calories, and for those who lead with intuition it may be necessary for basic psychological health.

2. It gives them freedom. It’s not always easy to find another person who will go down these rabbit holes with you conversationally, and sometimes the perpetual searching for it makes one feel like a freak. When an Intuitive finds someone who will do a ‘deep dive’, there’s an entire world of permission that opens up. Permission to think outside the box, to consider new ways of solving challenges and of thinking. This permission is extremely freeing, and it’s important to have that sense of permission.

One of the great run-off benefits of these conversations is the cross pollination ideas. If ideas are a technology, then intuitive conversation becomes a laboratory. The more they cross pollinate each other’s ideas, the more sophisticated they become so when they’re brought to the world they’re more fleshed out, useful, and a true gift.

If you’re an Intuitive, keep in mind that this kind of conversation isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.

To know definitively if you’re an Intuitive learning style, take the Genius Style Assessment. If you turn out as a Perspectives or Exploration genius, you’re an Intuitive.

30 comments

  • Linda
    • Linda
    • November 19, 2012 at 6:26 am

    Antonia and Cameron,
    What an important thing you two are doing. I am a homeschooling mother of a 14 year old intuitive and a soon to be 12 year old social butterfly artist….
    We have watched your videos a number if times in our science classes. It is very empowering for my son to know there are other ways to be a genius than rocket science.
    He gets his CD set first!
    I can’t wait to start working through the materials in the bundle i will get.

    Thank you both, Linda
  • Celestial
    • Celestial
    • November 17, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    I could not articulate it, but this type of conversation is what I live for. I’ve raised three children to think in this style, and when they are available we talk for hours, but in my former mates, not so much.

    Funnily enough, it is the blogosphere where I find others who like to think abstractly and enjoy talking about it. That’s how I found this space. Thank you Antonia for opening this line of conversation and regarding it truly as a need. Namaste!

  • janet cade
    • janet cade
    • October 12, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    Could NOT agree more. There have been about 5 people in the world that I have
    been able to find these people — ok — maybe 6..
    Love that you have spotted and highlighted this !!!
    Bravo Antonia!

  • antonia
    • antonia
    • June 29, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    This is a great question, Carol! If you’re willing to wait a couple of days, I’ll answer your question in my next blog post. :)

    A

  • CarolMcQ
    • CarolMcQ
    • June 29, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    My husband is clearly an intuitive, and I’m a sensory. Do you have an article on how a sensory person can relate to and make an intuitive more at ease? I just figured out that this difference is what makes for most of our discussion problems.

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