May the force be with you...

My favourite movies of all time... Star Wars, where Yoda, the Jedi Master utter the words "May the force be with you" to Luke Skywalker.

Well, in the true sense, we humans really lack this capability whereby we can lift objects and change the will of other beings merely by use of our mental powers. But what we have is really intuition. Currently reading the book by Gary Klein "Intuition at Work", whom he describes how people can improve their decision making skills through intuition.

I first encountered Gary Klein's work 1-2 years back when I first read his first book "Sources of Power". I was intrigued by his research which concluded that people doing dangerous or critical jobs like fire commanders, pilots and nurses could make split-second decisions on life-threatening situations and yet have a successful outcome.

Malcom Gladwell's book "Blink" probably drew some of his material from him.

Anyway, we can all learn a thing about decision making. Sometimes, we are too preoccupied with doing a thorough analysis of a issue or problem, that we have forgotten to place our subconcious mind of intuition to solving it. I would think that using too much of either left or right side of our brains would be counterproductive. A balance of both good rational analysis tempered by a dose of gut feelings might just be solution to all problems......