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Originally Posted by barx
The interesting thing is, is that he sees how intuitive I am and how typically I'm well received by people and my friends. He acknowledges that and I guess admires it a little, but he refuses to admit that I know or understand him at all.
By the way... you are far better at expressing yourself than I am. It's like I know in my mind what I want to say and it makes sense, but I can't usually put it down in logical order to make sense...
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I think you are putting it down in logical order when you call yourself
intuitive, because it is the right, most salient keyword.
Excuse this long explanation, because I hope it would make sense to you:
I got that from one of the books by Agatha Christie (I read a ton of them when I was a teen, and basically owe my English fluency to Agatha Christie - her books were so captivating that I read through one book after another, guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words from the context well enough, which gave me a sense of command of the language).
Hercule Poirot, the brilliant detective, explains what intuition is.
Intuition is completely materialistic, per his explanation, and there is no magic about it.
It is just something that the person who
intuits cannot articulate. But still no magic.
His example was related to telling if a painting is fake. So, he explained, a true expert can tell from just looking. But there is no magic - a true expert has internalized a myriad objective ways to assess a painting, to the point of that being the expert's second nature. And, the process of assessment happens very fast, bypassing conscious awareness. But still no magic - it is just that the assessment occurs very fast and without conscious awareness, but still there are objective underlying factors. So, per Agatha Christie, intuition is a result of having amassed knowledge and internalized it so much that you stop being consciously aware of that knowledge.
So to me a gut instinct is the same thing - it is a reaction to objective things that happens too fast to be registered consciously. But still entirely objective with no magic.
Sounds a bit like you - you cannot articulate what is happening, but you are still able to have lots of insight into others.
It is interesting how your husband basically treats himself as a one-of-a-kind specimen, in that he acknowledges and even admires your intuition as you perceive any human... OTHER THAN HIM!
Back to intuition - one still has to have the ability to interpret cues. If you have the ability, then the rest seems to be just amassing more and more information in your subconscious.