Unlocking your Intuition
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Slow Brain vs. Fast Brain
The slow brain deals with reasoning and conscious thinking, whereas the fast brain is for intuition, feel-based thinking, patterns and unconscious thinking.
Make them work together.
Get ideas from intuition, and details from reasoning
— Colin Galen
How to improve intuition
- Pick some problems that are too hard for me
- Immediately read the solution
- This creates a mental map of problem components and solution ideas
- Make the components easy to remember → plain English
Solving vs. Mental Mapping
The time you spend on a problem matters.
Slow solving (solve problem yourself)
- Deeper understanding of problems
- improves logic/reasoning
- Improves intuition
Fast mapping (see solution)
- improves intuition faster
Remarks
- You need to have both
- Learn proof techniques to validate the ideas from your intuition
Problem to solve
- competitive programming
- architecture show cases
Youtube: Unlocking Your Intuition: How to Solve Hard Problems Easily