Jamie Irons

I am a poor analytical thinker, but have decent intuition.

Wow!

I didn’t see that.

The best book I’ve ever read on intuition, or the cognitive unconscious, is Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious (Oxford Psychology Series, No. 19) by Arthur S. Reber.

Interestingly, there is quite a bit of research showing that tacit knowledge is more accurate than conscious, analytic knowledge. (Quite a bit more accurate, in my reading, which could be wrong.)

Reber’s book alone pushed me towards trusting Bush. I have no idea what George Bush’s conscious analytical skills are like–they may be terrific–but it seems pretty obvious his unconscious, “intuitive” skills are excellent, and he himself says he’s a gut thinker. So I take him at his word.