3 tips for putting yourself in the place where you can use your instinct
Where do things ‘come naturally’ for you? It’s vital to put yourself in places where you can use your instinct – but you will also go much further in these situations. You will use you insight and intelligence to make a positive impact. Let’s explore these steps.
* You can use your instinct.
“Everything seemed to come naturally when I began teaching so-called difficult children,” said one person. “I tuned into the way they thought – but was also very tough. Later they gave feedback along the lines of: ‘You understood our background, but also raised our sights. For the first time we believed it was possible to do something with our lives.’ There are some jobs that you have a feeling for – and for me that was working with troubled children.”
Where do you able to use your instinct and make a positive impact? You may be gardening, teaching, building, selling to certain customers, fixing engines, solving certain problems, leading teams or whatever. Try completing the following sentence.
The specific situation where I feel able to use my instinct – and make a positive impact – is:
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* You can use your insight.
Insight is the ability: a) To sum-up the situation quickly and get to the heart of the matter by seeing patterns: b) To go ‘A, B ---- then leap to --- Z’ and see the desired destination: c) To clarify the strategy for achieving the picture of perfection. Sometimes this insight happens in an instant. Great goal scorers in football, for example, seem to know instinctively where the ball is going to drop in the penalty area. Partly this stems from naturally ability but, as they grow older, they increase their ability to ‘read’ the game. Let’s return to the situation where feel ‘at home’. How do you use your insight? Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I do to use my insight in the situation are:
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* You can use your intelligence.
During the past twenty years it has become recognised that there are many different kinds of ‘intelligence’. (One of the best books on this subject is Thomas Armstrong’s Seven Kinds of Smart.) One common factor links the multiple intelligences – be these physical, linguistic, logical, musical, spatial, interpersonal or whatever. This is the ability to apply the intelligence to achieve success. This calls for being able: a) To draw on your natural talent; c) To draw on your knowledge and experience; c) To then have the ability to apply your chosen strategy successfully.
Let’s return to the situation where you build on your instinct and insight. How do you then use your intelligence to achieve success? Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I do to apply my intelligence to achieve success in the situation are:
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Peak performers put themselves into places where they use their instinct – plus their insight and intelligence. How can you do this in your own way? This will increase the opportunities to make a positive impact. Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I can do to keep putting myself into the places where I can use my instinct – and make a positive impact - are:
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“Everything seemed to come naturally when I began teaching so-called difficult children,” said one person. “I tuned into the way they thought – but was also very tough. Later they gave feedback along the lines of: ‘You understood our background, but also raised our sights. For the first time we believed it was possible to do something with our lives.’ There are some jobs that you have a feeling for – and for me that was working with troubled children.”
Where do you able to use your instinct and make a positive impact? You may be gardening, teaching, building, selling to certain customers, fixing engines, solving certain problems, leading teams or whatever. Try completing the following sentence.
The specific situation where I feel able to use my instinct – and make a positive impact – is:
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* You can use your insight.
Insight is the ability: a) To sum-up the situation quickly and get to the heart of the matter by seeing patterns: b) To go ‘A, B ---- then leap to --- Z’ and see the desired destination: c) To clarify the strategy for achieving the picture of perfection. Sometimes this insight happens in an instant. Great goal scorers in football, for example, seem to know instinctively where the ball is going to drop in the penalty area. Partly this stems from naturally ability but, as they grow older, they increase their ability to ‘read’ the game. Let’s return to the situation where feel ‘at home’. How do you use your insight? Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I do to use my insight in the situation are:
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* You can use your intelligence.
During the past twenty years it has become recognised that there are many different kinds of ‘intelligence’. (One of the best books on this subject is Thomas Armstrong’s Seven Kinds of Smart.) One common factor links the multiple intelligences – be these physical, linguistic, logical, musical, spatial, interpersonal or whatever. This is the ability to apply the intelligence to achieve success. This calls for being able: a) To draw on your natural talent; c) To draw on your knowledge and experience; c) To then have the ability to apply your chosen strategy successfully.
Let’s return to the situation where you build on your instinct and insight. How do you then use your intelligence to achieve success? Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I do to apply my intelligence to achieve success in the situation are:
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Peak performers put themselves into places where they use their instinct – plus their insight and intelligence. How can you do this in your own way? This will increase the opportunities to make a positive impact. Try completing the following sentence.
The specific things I can do to keep putting myself into the places where I can use my instinct – and make a positive impact - are:
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