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Intuition has a marketing problem. It either gets dressed up as something mystical and inaccessible or dismissed as the soft cousin of real thinking, the thing you fall back on when you haven’t done the analysis. Both framings miss it. Intuition isn’t fancy and it isn’t lazy. It’s a real cognitive process operating on a different clock than the part of you that uses words. Here’s a simple working definition: intuition is what you know before you can explain why you know it. T