The New Science of What Makes Us Click: 7 -What a Racing Car Driver Can Teach You About Using Your Intuition

“The driver couldn’t explain why he felt he should stop, but the urge was much stronger than his desire to win the race.” Gerard Hodgkinson.

     
Have you ever felt compelled to do something for a reason that felt ‘completely unknown’ to you at the time?
   
Such as drive a particular way to work, read a book, attend a particular social occasion or withdraw yourself from a situation. Almost all of us at some stage have felt an inner calling to take a specific action without knowing why.

Call it gut instinct, a higher power or intuition, all you know is that when it calls, you must act.

  
Unlock The Secret To Intuition – A Lightning Strike To The Brain

For too many years intuition has been placed in the category of pseudo-science and credited with scant plausibility in the mainstream. Well the good news is that what some so-called ‘primitive’ cultures in the world have always known is finally re-emerging back into the mainstream conversation for us in the ‘developed’ world: the tide of opinion on intuition has finally started to turn!

According to Gerard Hodgkinson of the Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change department at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of how our brain processes, retrieves and stores information at a subconscious level (although even he admits the need for much further study in order to fully understand this intriguing ‘new’ area and its full potential).

After analysing the range of published research papers available, Hodgkinson’s researchers concluded that the term ‘intuition’ describes the subconscious mind’s ability to draw on past experiences and external cues from our periphery to form decisions on an unconscious level.  

It happens so unbelievably fast that we have no idea it has occurred until we get the ‘message’ or receive the ‘intention’ – like a lightning strike in our brain that delivers an idea we feel compelled to act upon, no matter what.


Would You Slam On Your Brakes?   

To demonstrate his point, Hodkingson refers to the documented case of a Formula One driver who slammed on his brakes when coming up to a hairpin bend without ‘consciously’ knowing why.

The Result!?

He avoided hitting a pile-up of cars on the track around the corner, which unquestionably saved his life: "The driver couldn’t explain why he felt he should stop, but the urge was much stronger than his desire to win the race.” ~ Hodgkinson

To uncover what had actually occurred, this driver undertook forensic analysis by psychologists after the fact. He was presented with video footage of the event to see if anything jumped off the screen at him – it did – and astoundingly so!

The driver realised that without consciously processing it at the time, the audience which would have normally been leaping up and down, cheering him on to win was instead frozen immobile – and this acted as his cue to slam on the brakes.

This occurred outside of conscious thought (there was no time for the conscious brain to have noticed let alone process all this). Even the slightest delay in his subconscious intuitive processing would have cost him his life.


Tap Into Your Intuition

Sometimes we just have to trust what our instincts are telling us and tune in to them instead of out! This inbuilt program run by the subconscious mind is there for a reason: it’s there to keep us safe.

Are there bugs in the system?

Undoubtedly (we’re still evolving, after all) yet I can’t help but feel that when we get a ‘jolt to the system’ it’s the subconscious mind’s way of presenting us with a much needed ‘wake up call’ or lesson that needs to be learned at that particular juncture in our life.

Next time it comes calling, listen to it with a level of curiosity that you have never experienced before, it may just be the one thing that saves your life. 

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