Do You Have Better Intuition in Decision Making?

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I think, like, to your point, we all have that in some waysand in some domains. And it's important in decision making, ion't it's the only thing. But a lot of people just dismiss it outright. Whereas i think if we look at chess, right? Like herbert simon did the study on chess grand masters,. One of the things that he found was their intuition comes up with the move within a couple of seconds and then they spend the rest of the move like validating is that the right move is what i'm seeing correct? So it's like your bat yere incorporating both this very rational a component as well as this very intuitive component. Yet

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