Intuition played a role in another major news story. Last week Jaycee Dugard, who had been abducted 18 years ago when she was 11, was found and her captor, Philip Garrido, was arrested. Just as intriguing as the story itself was one of the factors that led to Dugard’s discovery: the intuition of a police…
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Lessons About Fear From an Acrobat
A friend mentioned today that the blog post he most related to was the one about fear. That wasn’t surprising to me. Having worked for years in a newsroom where I listened all day to CNN, I noticed that one of the things many media organizations do well is package fear and transmit it through…
Unleashing Intuition on the Job Hunt
Despite the constant news reports about how bad the job market and economy are, I know four people who’ve received job offers in the last week alone. A couple of them were actively job-searching and a couple were not. Conventional wisdom says now is the time to stay at your current job and be grateful…
When Intuition Throws You a Lifeline…
How many times have you heard someone say, “I knew I should have done this,” or “I had a bad feeling all along; I wish I had listened to it”? Every so often you hear a story about how someone’s bad feeling got them out of a precarious situation or even saved a life. Remember…
Intuition or Fear?
One of the questions I’ve grappled with: How do you know if it’s your intuition and not just thoughts? I came across this posting from The Art of Sensitive Living Blog that explains a few ways to tell the difference between intuition and fearful thoughts. A lot of it comes down to the way you…