When Sixth Sense Drove Better than Data

Data Does Matter, Intuition Does More

As the fundamental principle of our life and decision making, observing data is considered to be done in almost every situation we face. Whoever you are. Your teacher would be mad if you answered his questions with no reason. Or your investors would refuse your offerings if you served number with no exact data source.

But do you remember Mr Danielson on Imagine That?

Yeah it was Eddie Murphy who played in that movie which is about how a workaholic dad with his beloved daughter, Olivia, solve problems by her magical blanket consists of invisible queen and princess. It was pretty funny when his dad found that they’re able to forecast stock market as what experts do.

Do we really get it?

Being a human with five visible senses as we use them all every single second, but do we have ever had consideration about the last sense God given to us? Human have a deep unique connection with nature, something that we don’t really realize sometimes. When we communicate with people, either as decoder or encoder, we receive or send signal, our five sense work. An example of circumstances that made us to implement more self intuition rather than looking at dizzying graphs is when you have a meeting with your clients and they refuse your offerings, what probably you do? I believe you may decrease the price, increase the amount or something else to persuade them to get into a big business deal. Who did that? Ear? Tongue? This what I believe as sixth sense. As another senses, it encodes and interprets their gestures and words then transmitting to the brain. I neither have certain data nor psychologic literature to explain this phenomenon.

I read a book from Adam Grant “Original” that’s such an amazing masterpiece from him, best book I’ve ever read so far. I believe that we may not see Facebook or Warby Parker today as they were emerged by out of the box ideas. Those stories empower me to be be brave in every decision I have to make, I still need data, but that whole.

So, what’s that?

I have no exact word to describe a strong sense of believing something without rational calculations that made me to do. When you see kids are playing with their cute kitten dolls why do they describe kitten as “nice figure” rather than a black-dressed witch? Why do we afraid of dark cave? Have we warned the cave is dangerous? Those conditions is just a simple visualization of what feeling I had. I have totally no idea how it occurred.

When I was 18, I bought my first stocks on a property business corporation. I was laughed. My mates suggested me to buy some additional stocks on more beneficial and strong capitalization companies rather than a small developing one. In fact, I made my first 5% return within a month, it’s just a small amount for those who are investing their money on stock market. I made some similar decisions on various stocks then, I started to believe in my own intuition since that day. Then day after day lot of decision I have to make which require me to use my intuitions.