The Power Of Intuition
By Leo Gura - June 4, 2025
Often it’s just easier to instantly recognize something as wrong without being able to explicate or articulate why exactly it is wrong. It can take years to explicate why something that you intuit as wrong, is wrong. But this will be used against you in the meantime because those doing wrong will act like there’s nothing wrong unless you can nail their ass to the wall with a formal explication.
The best example I have of this is that you can pretty easily intuit that rationalism must be wrong, however, it took me some 10-15 years of work to formally explicate exactly why rationalism is wrong. Likewise with science. I intuited that science cannot be the final explanation of reality back in college, but it took me 15 years of work to fully explicate in a rigorous logical way. You can be sure that scientists, materialists, and rationalists will use this against you.
Explicating valid intuitions can takes decades of work. It’s annoying because you know that something is wrong but it frustrates you that you can’t quite put your finger on why it is wrong. Why is science wrong? Why is rationalism wrong? Why is atheism wrong? Can you elegantly and rigorously explain it? It took me 15 years of work. And during that whole time I was gaslit by scientists, rationalists, and atheists. They will gaslight you so confidently that you will start to doubt your own intuitions. Which is why this work requires spine and balls.
Another example: the first time in college when I heard that logicians in the late 19th century like Frege, Hilbert, and Russell tried to logicize mathematics, I instantly knew that had to be impossible. I knew this before I knew the history of how their projects failed. To me it seemed absurd that such great intellectuals, logicians, and philosophers could not see that formalization of reality via a dumb system of rules could not be possible. Yet they were shocked to discover this themselves after decades of grueling logical work, which culminated in Godel’s Incomplete Theorems. But even though I intuited this, I did not have anywhere near the logical, mathematical, or philosophical skill to explain it.
One of the most infuriating things is trying to get a purely logical mind to understand that logic cannot understand reality. Because this mind demands a formal proof of why logic is insufficient. But breaking out of logic requires intuition, not more logic. So it’s like arguing with a religious fanatic except he thinks he’s just being logical.
So that’s the crazy thing about reality and intuition. Intuition is able to solve massively complex problems that would take a decade, within 30 seconds. One of the tricks I used to get so far in my work is that I deeply followed my intuitions. I used intuition to solve problems that philosophers and scientists hadn’t solved in a 1000 years. That’s how powerful intuition is. Intuition is a tool of God. Intuition is a conduit to Infinite Intelligence. However, if you blindly trust intuition — as New Agers do — you will fall into massive self-deception. So the follow-up work is absolutely necessary. Those 10-15 years were not in vain. Not all of my intuitions are right. Some are huge illusions.
Of course this also applies to intuiting people. It is much easier to intuit that something is wrong with a person long before you can formally prove it or explain it. For example, the first time my pickup buddy told me about Andrew Tate, just from hearing a verbal description of him, within 30 seconds I knew this guy was an total scumbag, not someone to admire or emulate. It would take a few years for all the sordid details and evidence of his awful character to emerge in the media. Intuition is crucial to dealing with people, especially bad actors and crazies. Over the years doing this work I have honed my intuition so well that I can tell if someone has mental illness just from how they write internet comments. I’ve seen enough mentally ill comments that I just smell them as soon as I see them. This skill is priceless.
Doing this work I have developed an insane intuition for human illusion. I can see through people like an x-ray. I see every game they are playing — games they don’t even know they are playing. Intuition is a crazy skill when properly honed. Intuition doesn’t just happen. It requires years of honing. Honing intuition is exactly like training an LLM (AI). Honed intuition is the icing on the cake of mastery. It’s what makes the master supernaturally good, awesome, God-like. But the profound truth is that without keen intuition the master would never have become the master. Intuition is God.
Just as a thought-experiment, consider how much easier it is to intuit that Trump is wrong vs having to articulate why exactly Trump is wrong. When I say Trump is wrong, I just mean overall, like, wrong for mankind, wrong for society, wrong for the world. You should be able to just look at Trump for 60 seconds and instantly tell that he is profoundly, obviously WRONG. You won’t know exactly why, but you will clearly know. In any semi-conscious, semi-intelligent mind, Trump should evoke a gag-reflex. Yet this intuition is missing for half of mankind. Amazing!
Note: The reason I’m able to do this is because I am an INTP personality type — one of the most intuitive personality types. The kind of intuition I have is rare. I have a one in a million intuition. Which is why I’m just able to leap to answers by skipping all the logical noise. I don’t need a bunch proofs and logic, I can instantly see that science is metaphysical bullshit. What baffles me is why can’t everyone?
Now I have to spend 10 years writing a book to explain what to me is obvious within minutes.
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