Intuitive people: the 8 characteristics that give them away

Introversion, kindness, neuroticism… many of the personality traits psychologists work with are well defined and relatively easy to recognize where they occur. However, there are other psychological facets that are more subtle and that, therefore, can appear in a multitude of forms.

With intuitive people, exactly that happens, because what they excel at the most, paradoxically, goes unnoticed by most people. And it is that in this case what draws attention is something very discreet: the psychological processes that lead to act in one way or another and that, if we pay attention to them, they tell us about the emotional character of those who has. However… What are the basic characteristics of intuitive people? Let's see.

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How to recognize intuitive people

These are the traits and habits that define intuitive people on a day-to-day basis.

1. They try to see things as a whole, not through its pieces

Possibly one of the main characteristics of intuitive people is that

try to reach a degree of holistic understanding of things. That means that instead of analyzing what happens by breaking it down into its parts.

2. They value the importance of feelings when making decisions

No person becomes intuitive if he does not practice the habit of giving importance to the most irrational side of him. That is why intuitive people they do not see as a weakness the fact of giving in to the pretensions of emotion and feeling.

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3. They have a predilection for "feminine" disciplines of knowledge

Throughout the history of mankind, there have been certain areas of knowledge that have been considered feminine and therefore unworthy of the attention of the intellectual life. In other words, sophisticated pieces of culture could not belong to the realm of the feminine.

However, exceptionally intuitive people tend not to exclude these disciplines from their focus of interest.

Furthermore, they tend to enjoy these areas normally rejected by men, for two simple reasons: because there is no reason to do otherwise, and because they offer activities more based on feelings and understanding between human beings than in pure theory.

4. They are very empathetic

Another of the great characteristics of intuitive people is that they connect easily with others, at least on an emotional level. This is so because they have a good ability to recognize the signals that the other sends, deliberately or not, about their emotional state.

Thus, between empathic people and their interlocutors a special connection is established, given that non-verbal language is much more taken into account, which transmits nuances about the emotional state in which we find ourselves.

5. Your focus of attention focuses outward

Just as some people tend to introspection, fantasize, and reflect in quiet places, intuitive people they tend to focus their attention outward, that is, towards their environment and those who are in it.

This does not mean that they are very sociable or that they have very good conversational skills, as you would expect from someone who enjoys having a rich social life. What it does mean is that these people direct their thinking towards what they perceive from the environment, rather than on very abstract memories and concepts.

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6. They know how to live in the here and now

To be open to new situations and to be guided by intuitions, it is necessary not to carry psychological and emotional burdens that make us lose sight of what is happening in time real. And it is that phenomena such as rumination They are able to focus our attention on past experiences, usually obsessively and with feelings linked to regret and frustration.

Thus, intuitive people develop the necessary Emotional Intelligence skills to fall as little as possible in this type of ballast and have an awake mind for as long as possible.

7. They are not afraid of uncertainty

To be an intuitive person it is necessary to tolerate uncertainty, since otherwise it is unlikely decisions are made based on hunches (at least consciously). Thus, the management of the possible anxiety that produce doubts and the fear of being wrong cannot become something that completely paralyzes.

8. They develop projects in coherence with their visions

It is not about visions in the mystical sense of the term, of course, but as the embodiment of what one aspires to, what one wants to achieve after a long time of work.

Since intuitive people base many of their most important decisions on emotions, that means that the evolution of their projects also depends on their degree of emotional involvement at each stage of development.