This week, we're answering the question: Is intuition a sign of expertise?

Building on last week's conversation about intuition as evidence in psychology, I turn to another field that has spent decades studying intuition: management and organizational learning.

I explore an argument I found really compelling: that intuition is often the outcome of expertise. In other words, the people we think of as "intuitive" are frequently drawing on years of disciplined observation, tacit knowledge, and experience.

But as a scholar of religion and Black intellectual history, I’m also interested in where that understanding falls short. What happens when intuition is understood only as something that comes out of experience + expertise… and not forms of knowledge beyond the self? Like higher powers, ancestors, the unseen, Allah, the divine, etc.

Chapters

00:00 — Grounding in Knowing Who You Are When Things Go Left

10:58 — This Week's Question: Is Intuition a Sign of Expertise?

13:09 — Intuition as Creative Insight

16:42 — Intuition as an Outcome of Expertise

27:40 — What's Missing? Spirituality and Intuition

32:30 — Prof in the Park Announcement

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Reference

Dörfler, Viktor, and Fran Ackermann. "Understanding intuition: The case for two forms of intuition." Management learning 43, no. 5 (2012): 545-564.