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What Are The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Humanity?

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Our Declining Creativity Scores

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Kindy Primary Senior Uni Adults

Creativity Scores

Creativity Scores

Our Journey

• Gut-brain

• What Is Intuition

• When To Use

• How To Use

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Your Two Brains

• Central nervous system

• Enteric nervous system

Listen To Your Body

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No. Of Hands Of Cards Played

Awareness Of Cheating In Gambling Game

Body aware (palms sweated) Unconscious or gut hunch Conscious awareness

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Israeli Parole Board Decisions By Judges

Activity

• Find partner

• Talk about someone you find challenging

• Notice body signals including where breathing from

• Compare notes

• Talk about someone you find inspiring or uplifting

• Notice body signals including where breathing from

• Compare notes

• Swap

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Our Journey

• Gut-brain

• What Is Intuition

• When To Use

• How To Use

Intuition

IS NOT• Guessing

• Weird hippy stuff

• New

IS• Non-conscious process

• Non-sequential

• Relies on emotional cues

• Quick pattern-recognition

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Decisions Without Emotions

Your Brain

Task positive network

Task negative network

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As Soon As You Stop Thinking You ‘Know’

Speed Thinking

Two minutes

What are 10 things Australians could do to help beat global warming?

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Better Creativity

• An easier way to change light bulbs

Fast Thinking Slow Thinking

Challenge:

Everyone should spend

1 week a year on voluntary service

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Perspective

Perfectly safe or in need of rescuing?

Decision Making Traps

• Those deceiving eyes

• First impressions

• Seeking the familiar

• The personal preference fog

• Justifying past decisions

• Unrealistic predictions

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Activity: Amazing Eyes

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Our Journey

• Gut-brain

• What Is Intuition

• When To Use

• How To Use

When To Use

• Uncertain situations

• Rapid response

• Fast paced change

• No precedent

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Successful Entrepreneurs

1. Awareness Stage

2. Intuition Stage

Our Journey

• Gut-brain

• What Is Intuition

• When To Use

• How To Use

• Let’s Practice

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How to Use

• Shut down the static

• Pay attention to your emotions/body

• Incorporate analysis and reasoning

Activity

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Our Journey

• Gut-brain

• What Is Intuition

• When To Use

• How To Use