Episode 10 / August 23, 2021 / 21 min
Intuition
“Albert Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a secret gift.”
Episode 10
Intuition
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The Story Beneath The Story
In "John Harper's Insight" by Dick Purcell, published in the October 1956 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy Magazine, I learn about a machine shop worker named John Harper who quits his job to pursue becoming a concert pianist. The central question that lingers is whether an unreasoning, profound sense of destiny is ever strong enough to override the practical realities of a comfortable life.
As we chat through John's incredible journey, we then shift to my memory of leaving my printing press job after an odd exchange with a co-worker about James Bond. These parts together naturally lead us into the concept of intuition, a force we research, realizing how frequently our instincts guide us long before our rational minds can comprehend why.
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