Intuition Isn't Woo

It's your greatest intelligence

Imagine being born in a culture that ignored your sense of smell.

When you were a baby, there were no funny faces or exaggerated expressions or baby talk about how something smelled. No one read you a picture book about it or taught you how to notice it.

You’ve got a nose, of course. And you learned all about it at school. The function of the nose is breathing, obvs!

But one day, maybe to your mom or your friend or a trusted teacher, when you tried to find words to describe this weird perception you were noticing - what do you think would happen?

You would probably conclude that you were the strange one.

And eventually you would stop paying attention to what your nose was telling you altogether.

Dear Ones: We’ve inherited an incomplete model of intelligence - one that ignores our most important sense.

We have built an educational system that develops analysis, but leaves intuitive knowing without language, practice, or cultivation.

This July, I want to help you recover the capacity you’ve always had but were never taught to recognize. We’ll explore what intuition actually is, why it belongs at the center of learning, and how to cultivate it in ourselves and the children we teach.

If that sounds like a journey worth taking, subscribe and bring this Substack with you to the beach. By the time school starts in the Fall, you won’t think about learning the same way.