Intuitive Aptitude
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Trickster1992 
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 Posted: 02:19PM Mar 27, 2008 |
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It's the ability to know how things work without any special education or having to take them apart.
Like, a new cell phone comes out with all sorts of new feature nobody's ever even heard of, and you get one and immediately know how to use everything on it. You didn't do any research, you just know. Like it's the most obvious thing ever, or like you've already had the cell phone for years.
Or, say there's a new boss at work, and you just somehow know what'll make them happy, so while everybody else is stressed out you're all calm and doing what they ACTUALLY want of you.
It's intuitive aptitude.
It's not a super power, so don't go telling me I'm crazy or I need a life or powers aren't real or anything like that. I just want to know if anybody here has inuitive aptitude? Cause I have it, and it seems perfectly normal to me, but I dont think anybody else has it cause everybody else takes like a day, sometimes a week, sometimes even entire months, to figure out the simplest things...
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stephiesd
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Posted: 02:39PM Mar 27, 2008 |
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Hm. Well, I'd have to assume that everybody has it about SOMETHING. Like, I'm not good AT ALL with computers or electronics or anything. I may not LIKE being around people, but I know how to. Like, I can usually tell within a few hours how they operate. I think in this case, though, this has more to do with my ability to read people than with "intuitive aptitude".
However, when presented with a math problem, no process to follow, no information about it, just the problem and the goal, I'm able to solve it within minutes. I don't need instruction, I (rarely) need examples, I don't need help. I just need the problem and can instantly find a way to work it out.
I don't really know if this is the same thing, though. This is simply what I'm "good" at...
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Radioguy 
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Posted: 05:40PM Mar 27, 2008 |
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"Intuitive Aptitude" is what it says it is. It's very easily explained. Since I am a tech freak, I can use any device for the first time, and know how everything works without a user's manual. It's because I have studied and used such devices for a long time, so that no new device can stump me, since I immediately recognize everything from the older versions, and have no trouble understanding the new stuff, since I already know why the new stuff was added, and what it's for. "Intuitive Aptitude" (I love big words) can be applied to any field of knowledge that A person is either naturally apt to understand, or has become apt to understand from desire to learn.
As a side note, in the world of computers, sometimes the people with the greatest intuition are the ones who make the computers. Macs are the most intuitive computers on the market, as every detail was carefully thought out to make it the most pleasurable and easy-to-use device on the market.
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besmartbaby 
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Posted: 01:47AM Mar 28, 2008 |
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Intuitive Aptitude hmmm... I love languages and I'm good at translating (English,German,French,Latin,Spanish,older version of my own language). I study this at school and it often happens that my friends say:"Ok, how do you do that?!" I simply know the translation even if I've never seen the words before. I use intuition and my knowledge of all the other languages, faster than others do. Intuitive Aptitude? maybe... 
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grilledcheese
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Posted: 05:34AM Mar 28, 2008 |
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I think it's just human nature to understand how things work once you tried it out once. We remember things more when we're focused on something
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tommysmo
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Posted: 01:54PM Mar 28, 2008 |
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I would suggest, though, that some are more intuitive than others. They just get it even if it is new. A lot of people have been relating to things based on prior experience. Intuition, I think, is the ability to go to something totally new and be able to do it.
People that are good with people, that's not intuition. That's another skill.
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Writeaway
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Posted: 03:00PM Mar 28, 2008 |
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I think that a person's level of "intuitive aptitude" depends on the person's talents and areas of interest.
Because I'm a kinesthetic learner I can figure out how something works almost immediately as long as I can touch it, feel it, or work with it using my hands. I also have an unusual level of "intuitive aptitude" when it comes to words, I can usually define words I've never seen quite easily, and I can at the very least understand most languages that are being spoken or written (though not to the degree that Besmartbaby claims she can, that's amazing!) even if I've never heard or seen them before. On the flip side, if someone asks me to work a math problem of a type I've never seen before... well, it's not pretty.
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AndrewWalker
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Posted: 08:47PM Mar 28, 2008 |
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I am not sure if I have it cuz that would be one more thing I have, but science and math come easy to me and I can figure things out quickly
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Trickster1992
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Posted: 03:06PM Mar 30, 2008 |
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tommysmo wrote: I would suggest, though, that some are more intuitive than others. They just get it even if it is new. A lot of people have been relating to things based on prior experience. Intuition, I think, is the ability to go to something totally new and be able to do it.
People that are good with people, that's not intuition. That's another skill.
You pretty much have the right idea, tommy.
However, people that are good with people IS intuition.
Definition of intuition: The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition.
Aptitude just means quick learning.
So intuitive aptitude just means unbelievably fast and accurate intuition, basically. And intuition can be applied to practically anything, not just computers.
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dolphingurl12
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Posted: 04:05PM Mar 30, 2008 |
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Wouldn't that sort of be the same thing as natural talent?
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besmartbaby
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Posted: 07:25AM Mar 31, 2008 |
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I would rather say that that's the result of experience.
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Trickster1992
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Posted: 09:54PM Mar 31, 2008 |
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You're all missing the point here. READ TOMMYMO'S POST. Intuitive Aptitude is NOT experience. That's my whole point. Intuitive Aptitude is the ability to know things without having any education about them. Like walking by somebody you've never met and knowing what they think about. well, ok thats a bit extreme, but its the only example i can think of 
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dolphingurl12
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Posted: 03:19PM Apr 2, 2008 |
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I get what you're saying. No previous experience. Just good at something naturally. Natural talent.
Like, teachers never could believe I could read and comprehend when I was in elementary school. They'd always make it read it again cause they thought I just looked at the pictures or something. I'd recite the entire plot to them and they'd give up. I was just naturally good at remember what'd I read and reading things above what I was supposed to be. I didn't have any formal training before kindergarten. Just natural talent or "intutive aptitude."
Or some people pick up a basketball or tennis raquet or golf club and can play decently without ever having played before.
Isn't this what you're talking about?
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tommysmo
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Posted: 03:19PM Apr 3, 2008 |
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I knew it!!!! 
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Posted: 11:58AM Apr 15, 2008 |
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YES, SAMANTHA.
I TEMPORARILY LOVE YOU
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Trickster1992
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Posted: 12:43PM Apr 17, 2008 |
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LMAO
I looked through the Meteor Freak topic
and I can admit I wasnt exactly a happy fellow the last few posts
but thats not my fault
I find it hilarious how the last post contradicts itself. If moderators cared the topic wouldn't have been locked.
Anyways
the point is
i found this
BlackBelt did write in ze past:
The first time you were able to use a computer, I'm sure you didn't completely understand how it worked, but you still used it, gained experience, and learned.
*snickers*
Oh, you'd be surprised. I figured out more stuff on the computer in the first week of having it than my uncle, who actually works with computers (he makes like, games or websites or something.. something with weird codes...) learned in three months.
I learned the intro for Cry for Eternity in one week--I learned the first half one day, waited a little while, and then learned the next half in two days. I literally memorized the last bit AND taught myself to sweep pick, in less than 5 minutes. And I just got the guitar on March 1st. How many people do you know of that have never touched a guitar, and could pick one up and have it pretty much mastered in one month?
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Janetsayshello
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Posted: 02:12PM May 8, 2008 |
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I can relate to what your talking about. I seem to have this ability and it can cause me much frustration when I need to wait for others to catch up. (Patience is not my strong suit) Others can find it aggravating. ( I have had several occasions when others get annoyed that "your always right!" although of course I am not) Many things just seem obvious to me. This enables me to do well on multiple choice tests even when I have not prepared. In college my economics professor was certain that I cheated on a test because I aced it without a calculator. It was a multiple choice test and the answers just seemed like common sense to me.
Also, I can usually predict what will happen in other peoples lives long before any details have been revealed. (this ability is not psychic, just intuitive)
I am not saying that I'm a genius or anything. It is just the ability to intuit how things work, the thoughts behind what people say or do etc. It seems to me that this is a superficial or generalized understanding of things. Do you know what I mean?
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Posted: 04:33PM May 12, 2008 |
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Yeah, I get what you're saying.
People say that I have this sort of thing... I started reading when I was 3, comprehending and writing my own book when I was 4... Without being how to write a book or anything... Once I started and finished a language course in a day without previously studying the language... Unless you count learning how to say, "Hello". Now I'm learning 20 languages. I've also had this sort of thing with computers.
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