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

  • Morgan
    • Morgan
    • June 28, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Intuitive awareness is such an important life rudder. The course is now steadier, and it’s possible to understand both myself and others. There’s nothing wrong with either types, but living to fit an opposite type because it seems right, is wrong. At least, now that I’m aware I prefer to live my Genius.
    Thanks for the awakening.

  • Monty Maizels
    • Monty Maizels
    • June 25, 2012 at 1:12 am

    Thanks. You have clarified something for me—why I never feel so alive as when I am out of my intellectual depth. It IS food and drink to me.

    Strangely enough i have never seen myself as being an intuitive.

    Testing … testing … testing … ! Always.

    Monty

  • Mary
    • Mary
    • June 24, 2012 at 3:31 am

    In the past, I’ve commented on my need for this kind of conversation, which I attributed to cultural differences. I thought North Americans, in general, like to “shoot the breeze”, which I find extremely boring. I’m from Brazil and, there, I have friends who enjoy conceptualizing, imagining, playing devil’s advocate, just totally talk like we can make a difference…

  • Stephanie
    • Stephanie
    • June 23, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    Antonia, I am loving everything you’re doing with your blogs and programs. Bravo. As an intuitive, you are my hero!

  • Sadie
    • Sadie
    • June 23, 2012 at 1:20 am

    Antonia – you are AWESOME!!! Every time I read your blogs – I have another “AH HA!” moment, and more things fall into place. Please – never underestimate the value of your work here – for the minority intuitive’s :-) I always thought I was the weird one for going deeper into conversations… then withdraw when people start looking at me weirdly, or start cracking light hearted jokes. My mission now – to seek out more intuitive friends.

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