The power of intuition | Katrine Kjaer | TEDxHSG

so today we live in a world of Big Data endless opportunities and an overload of information the average person consumes what is equivalent to 16 hard drives of data every day so how do we deal with the complexity that deres from this abundance of information and how do we cut through it all and use it when making important decisions in life and in business for example what to study which job to apply for which property to buy or where to invest our money and our resources to grow our business I believe that we can come a long way if we start by tuning into this they have to trust their intuition just as much as their intellect if they want to succeed the world is moving so fast today and unforeseen situations are happening more frequently no data can possibly keep up with this um speed of information and be there to serve the right answer when a crisis hit but not only that in order to invent something new you have to go beyond your existing knowledge Bill Gates for example he was studying computer science at Howard but he used the knowledge he got from there to build completely new computer languages but that was not the only thing that made Microsoft successful he used his instinct to constantly predict the market situation and make the Right Moves and that that's how he at 839 was the richest man in the world Ed catmull the president and co-founder of Pixar he created the first fully computer animated movie Story he spent nearly 20 years working on this idea and many people thought it was completely impossible but when Toy Story was released it earned $361 million and was the game changer for Pixar Animation which nearly went bankrupt before this happened later on Pixar was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion he later on said that if he didn't have such a strong intuition that this would be a success he would have given up long ago so how can we all use to listen to this intuition how can we all learn to uh to listen to this intuition I believe that there's three essential steps in order to develop intuition first you need to have Clarity in your mind you you need to take distance to all the external information and sense how you really feel and what you don't need and not spend too much energy