Summary
It is not a hunch or gut feeling. It finds expression only in a highly disciplined mind.
Modern managers may take a few lessons from the practical steps shown by spiritual masters to experience the power of intuition.
Steve Jobs, the iconic leader of Apple, was reported to have told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that India taught him intuition during his seven months of wandering in the country in the early days of his career. “Job’s design sense was influenced by the simplicities of Zen Buddhism,” says the biographer in his widely selling book on the events that shaped the technical wizard’s life journey.
Indian spiritual wisdom teaches us that at the height of any crisis, those at the helm have tended to rely on their intuitive power to reach the decision that helped to bring overall benefits. We know how at the crisis point on the battlefront, Arjuna was suddenly overcome with grief and self-doubt and had intuitively turned to Krishna for the best course to adopt.
In simple sense, intuition is an aspect of creativity that lies deep in all of us, hidden from our sense perceptions. Literally, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without the use of reason. The word is from the Latin root ‘intueri,’ which means ‘to look inside’ or contemplate.
