Intuition

Excerpt from the book - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom. 

-- Jobs after his visit to India in search of enlightenment when he was nineteen years old.

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Interesting paragraphs that made me wonder whether what he said is true even now?

Srik

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