The Intuitive Edge

Understanding Intuition and Applying It in Everyday Life

Exclusively rational approaches to decision making and problem solving are inadequate in our increasingly complext world. Intuition can provide a crucial edge, enhancing our ability to discover, create, predict, and evaluate. "The Intuitive Edge" shows how to make the most of our natural--but tragically neglected--intuitive powers.

Developing and focusing this extra-rational faculty will expand your mental capacities, enhance your creativity, and help you to become more insightful, confident, and decisive. You will be better equipped to understand yourself and your world.

Goldberg illuminates the most controversial questions surrounding intuition: When can we trust it? How does it relate to logic and reason? Are women and children more intuitive? Are dreams, flashes of insight, and hunches significant intuitive experiences? Is intuition the same as ESP? Can it be "found" in any one part of the brain? How can we maximize our intuitive powers? His answers are drawn from a wide range of disciplines and from firsthand experiences of leading scientists, philosophers, psychologists, artists, writers, and executives who attribute their successes to intuitive breakthroughs. 

At the heart of The Intuitive Edge is the essential message that we must strike the critical balance between rational thinking and intuition. In achieving this our every thought and every action will resonate with deeper truth.

Author: Philip Goldberg
Details: Paperback, 242 pages 

Testimonials

"Highly readable, immensely informative, and full of delightful anecdotes, this is by far the most comprehensive and up-to-date work in the field." 
-- New Age Journal

"Goldberg has synthesized theory and anecdote in a clear, helpful way." -- Marilyn Ferguson

"Goldberg teaches the reader not only what intuition is, but how to recognize and cultivate it. He brings remarkable insight and originality to this crisp compendium." -- ALA Booklist

"A lively discussion...Goldberg draws distinctions essential to understanding the nature of intuition." 
-- Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.

"Successful leaders in organizations are aware of the importance of intuition...Goldberg's book does an excellent job of showing the central role intuition plays for great scientists and imaginative thinkers." 
-- Peter Senge, Ph.D., Sloan School of Management

"When Einstein was asked what he thought about intuition, his cryptic reply was, 'Is there anything else?' But neither he nor a hundred others who carried civilization on their shoulders convinced the world that intuition is the hidden jewel in the crown of human intelligence. Philip Goldberg did. The Intuitive Edge was a groundbreaking classic."
-- Daniel Cappon, M.D., York University

"For too long intuition has not been explicitly recognized by the scientific community. Philip Goldberg's book takes an admirable step in redressing this." -- Ellen Langer, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard U.

"Philip Goldberg's rich book is full of informative nuggets. He shows us how intuition has provided stellar input since time immemorial." -- Marcia Emery, Ph.D. author of "The Intuitive Healer" 

"As an educational tool, The Intuitive Edge stands with the writings of Henri Poincare, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hubert Dreyfus and others in broadening the scope of our understanding of the contribution of intuition to the scientific dimensions of our environment and to human expertise, if not creativity." Rutherford B. Polhill, M.D., M.B.A. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine 

"A rich source of ideas for practical applications as well as for further investigation of intuition." -- ReVision Journal

"A first