Where does your creativity come from? How much do you use heuristics? What shapes your research interests? How much are your culture and background important in your problem solving and decision-making skills?
Intuition, as a counterpart of intelligence, plays a fundamental role when I have to decide 'how' to move from one point to another in my ideas landscape. Intelligence is something which deals with the resettlement of existing things. Intuition is my north star. And when something strange pops up in my mind that I cannot manage on my own, then I use intelligence to understand with whom I can collaborate to solve the puzzle.
Intuition, as a counterpart of intelligence, plays a fundamental role when I have to decide 'how' to move from one point to another in my ideas landscape. Intelligence is something which deals with the resettlement of existing things. Intuition is my north star. And when something strange pops up in my mind that I cannot manage on my own, then I use intelligence to understand with whom I can collaborate to solve the puzzle.
Intuition in research work gives you the occasional spark / dose of creativity BUT it is your innate tenacity, perseverance, and exceptional hard work that really decides the outcome (success or failure) of your research. Intuition generally come to a prepared mind ... after lot of hard work!
Dear Amir,
Creativity must be an inherited feature which can be developed mainly by cultural impressions. Thus, the cultural backgrounds of the individual may have an enormous often not realized influence on it. However, research interest is shaped by the collective knowledge of the given scientific field and also emphasized by political or business attention. These days the commercialisation has the main impact on scientific research directions.
Hi Amir,
I agree with his friend Francesco. I believe that intuition is an indicator of what we can and can not do. I'm not referring to something mystical or anything, but the emotional intelligence (which can also be rational) that shapes our creativity and our potential.
Usually, researchers do not pay much attention to the importance of intuition and in fact, some of them avoid to admit that they use it! However, if we stop and think about own past or current researches we conclude that many times some good decisions showed up due to our intuition judgement, common sense or other kind of heuristics. This is one intelligence mechanism that should be combined with creativity and intelligence to discover the best solution in a given moment, to solve problems and to learn. all the best ;)
Check also this paper!
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toiscij/articles/V003/SI0001TOISCIJ/80TOISCIJ.pdf
Yes, we do make decisions (good or bad) based on intuition! We do not discount intuition in the research work BUT at end of the day, it is our concerted effort, lot of resilience, sense of purpose and perspiration that yields the results. I think Decision making and Research work have different time horizons (you make decisions at a point in time whereas research work is spanned over a much longer period of time) and require different mind sets and approaches.
Roberto,
I think you mentioned something which can bring us nearer to the development of an intuitive moment. Behind the appearance of good ideas, we can call it intuition, there is an intense thinking mechanism, an unconscious brain activity which can be the consequence of the conscious and long concentration to a subject or question. Thus, researchers do not pay only unconsciously much attention to intuition.
Dear Amir Mosavi, No doubt that “Intuition is a powerful decision-making tool” at the same time Intuition is associated with high and random risk probability. Some time it may return a good and enthusiastic result. Also, we should not forget that Intuition is the experience of our unconscious mind providing us with an answer. It’s an irrational approach of Intuition based decision where we make decisions without rational, step-by-step thought.
Thomas Alva Edison has said Research is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Intuition comes your hard work and continuous churning of ones mind.
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