How Can You Tell It’s Intuition?

If you read about people who are very well-known in many different fields (science, medicine, philosophy) who have made great discoveries, you will find that almost all of them did not make these decisions in the traditional way. Instead, they used a part of their mind that was much more circular than linear; they used what Eric Butterworth called “concentric thinking.” Most of us call it “intuition.” In almost every case, when they were asked about their thought process, they were completely unable to explain how they came up with the perfect answer at exactly the right moment. In some cases they had even given up on the possibility of finding an answer, when the right answer just ……showed up