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a Le os peed wenn yoo aie mage end e- as cased a ecnemdedad une, oer ede Se oo eo ae Unsolicited Proposal _ . ae pege' 8 ionary calls it “non intellectual perception," Psychologists call 3 it “intuitive thin’ ing’,..and recently ‘science has been putting it under the clinical’ microscope to 326 what makes it tick, Harvard Universi ity's Dr. Jerome.S. Brimer sums the findings of the National Academy of Science's Conferehce- on the Subject aS followsz. There are two kinds of thinking... - analytical and. intuitive. Analytical or logical thinking proceeds a step at atime. In contrast, intuitive ‘thinking is ‘a mental short cut, and dees not advance in careful, well- defined steps, The intuitive’ thinker arr- ives at an answer with little if any awareness of the process,.:Dr, Bruner and his colleagues concluded from their studies that through intuitive thinking a person nay often arrive at solutions to problerns which he would not achieve at all, «eOr at best more slowly...through analytical thinking, The’ ‘warm praise," says the Harverd Research Analyst, ‘that scientists lavish on their colleagues who can.earn tre labe intuitive'' is major evidence that intuition 4s a valuable commodity i in: ‘Science é at everyday life,'' The case for intuition (45) in the arts (music, writing, etc). is just as strong. eo! : All human abilities are fallible, and subject ‘to error. “Intuitive thinking can come oe with the wrong answer just as logical thinking can, Aisoa great deal depends on : individual and how his intuitive thinkin mg faculties function, Dr, Eric Berne, a-well lmowa psychiatrist, has made an extensive study of the dynamics. of intuition, and hz published & number of scientific papers oa his findings, "The intuitive ‘person, he Says, "can sense when this faculty is functioning. My studies show that:when.one- has ..,"that fecling'' one rarely makes a mistake. But when one doesn! t have that feeling, one's guesses or judgment do no ) better than the laws of chance." Vassar psychologists Malcolm R. Westcott and Jane H. Ranzoni made a ‘study ot several hundred students to-determine if intuitive people's pers onalities differ from . Others. It was found that the su cces $ful intuitive thinkers (those who tended cOn.2is ¢ ently to solve test problems correctly, without being furnished-the ‘clués which Woulc _be required to reason cut or anatyze the problem) differed “markedly froro the ¢ other; in their pers onality traits and general wor}d. outlook, noe They were found to be aleri, quick, confide anti foresighted, informal, spontanedus, end independent. They had a far greater ‘inte rest thaa the athe’ rs in reading, art, _- rvusic, literature or drama, S6% of therm worked” creatively, most of thern jn write ins. They also differed Sharoly from the others in that. they had a strong inter 2st in Sweeping abstract questions of pt hilesophy, esthetics, and human values.’ They | Ww extremely articulate, often expressing themselves on these subjects with startling : clarity and br illance. They can live with doubt a ind uncertainty, even r enjoying rish and seeking out instabilities in the world, ee