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How To Harness Your Intuition

Zaid K. Dahhaj
9 min readMar 14, 2018

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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” (Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam)

Intuition is key to becoming the strongest version of yourself.

A person who is self actualized is very intuitive and uses intuition as a compass to direct their life.

A lot of people don’t do this because they are out of touch with their intuition.

Your life lacks big picture thinking, strategy, and motivation as well as purpose, not the little picture tactics and details. A lot of people get totally lost in life frying the little fish and ignoring all the big fish that they should be chasing which results in a mediocre life.

This is especially bad in modern Western culture which has a left brain bias. What this means is that as a culture, we don’t teach our children to harness their intuition and we don’t even hold it as acceptable for adults to use intuition and make decisions.

Think about it: If you’re sitting in a corporate boardroom and you’re trying to convince the boardroom to do some new project with the company then what’s going to happen? They will only ask you for logical reasons and justifications for why your proposal is correct. They won’t accept the reason of following your intuition because in our culture…

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Zaid K. Dahhaj
Zaid K. Dahhaj

Written by Zaid K. Dahhaj

Sleep King. Helping family men fix fatigue in less than 42 days without letting loved ones suffer. Founder: The 2AM Podcast.

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