“Intuition is the basis of the decisions we make, mostly without us realizing it.”
Yale University, CT
Jackson Institute of Global Affairs
15. November, 2016, 8.30-9.15
While intuition is sometimes dismissed as an irrational and fluffy feeling, today’s rapidly changing world of big data, political turmoil and technological revolution increasingly demands that we combine intuition with data and analysis.
But how well do we know intuition? Intuition is the basis of the decisions we make, mostly without us realizing it. While we can learn rational thinking skills and analysis relatively quickly, intuition is an entirely different beast. Intuition takes a long time to develop, is more elusive and therefore more challenging to teach and learn.
In this breakfast panel, Yale Greenberg World Fellows Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir and Wang Shuo navigate the world of intuition, how it interacts with rational thinking and analysis, how it can help us open up the infinite possibilities of human beings, what we will do with it in the age of algorithms, robots and artificial intelligence and explore when we most need it.
“Ttoday’s rapidly changing world of big data, political turmoil and technological revolution increasingly demands that we combine intuition with data and analysis.”
About Wang Shuo
As co-founder and managing editor of Caixin, China’s leading business and finance media group, Wang Shuo focuses on providing high-quality news reports through leading an independent and professional standard in China. Under his leadership, the Caixin editorial team won the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University. Before Caixin, Shuo served as managing editor of Caijing, a business and finance magazine in China. Shuo is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Peking University, and a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
