Make your process explicit

The other day, I was talking with someone close to my heart who has a special gift: they are a unique human conduit.

They are good at matching people together in ways that if those two had met elsewhere, they may not have thought about connecting, working together or learning from one another.

When I asked how they did it, the answer I got wasn’t satisfactory. You know, answers like ‘I don’t know, I just do it’, or ‘it’s my intuition’.

As I dug deeper, I started getting answers like ‘I sensed that based on what both had experienced, and what they told me they valued, both of them can learn from one another’.

Now, we were on to something. A few hour later, I heard one of the most detailed explanation of what happens behind each match.

We do a lot of things intuitively. Our bodies and minds know and do more than we often are willing to explain. Try explaining in plain words.

Write, write, and write until it’s clearer to you.

When we decide to make the intuitive process explicit, we not only can explain what goes on behind our thoughts and decisions, we can also see the limitations we’ve embraced.