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Malcolm Gladwell describes thin-slicing as the main topic of his bestselling book “Blink”.  Thin-slicing is an interesting concept and the term is most frequently used in philosophical and psychological areas.  What is thin-slicing?  Well basically it is the capacity of people to unconsciously identify patterns in experience based on very brief times when it occurred.  In other words, brief slices of experience unconsciously reveal a pattern of behavior to the observer.

Why is this important when we discuss life growth strategies?  One of the concepts covered here is the idea of intuitive knowing and thin-slicing would seem to indicate that some of what we call intuition is based upon experience – even if we do not realize it.

Although it is a valuable concept thin-slicing does not fully explain intuition.  Many Christians dismiss the concept of intuition as something relegated to psychics and unredeemed man.  I personally think this is a simplistic response born more of fear than the leading of the Lord.  Proverbs 14:12 in the Bible states: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.  Closer examination will reveal that this is talking about reasoning and the rational aspects of the mind and not intuition.

Intuition is a capacity that God has given to mankind for a purpose related to His plan for us.  This verse from Job 38:36, “Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart”? is translated, “Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind”? in the New Living Translation.  This latter translation seems to more fully reveal the gist of what is being said.

Someone once asked, “how do you know God is real?” and my response was something like, “I don’t know I just know”.  In my opinion faith is intuitive.  If you will open yourself to the possibility you will find that God is real.

It was like something in the air came into my body and I knew I was wearing an invisible coat of righteousness, God given righteousness.

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God has given us a gift, it is called ‘ imagination ‘ (at least that is the word we use ). This gift allows us to grasp concepts and trust the future for the best. But imagination often gets interpreted as ‘imaginary’.

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My Imagination Isn’t Enough | Broken Believers

Living is Giving (excerpted from Denis Waitley’s The Seeds of Greatness Treasury book)

Living is giving your best self away,

Living is helping someone every day;

Living is giving more than you get,

It’s treating an animal like a person, instead of a pet.

It’s helping the handicapped across the street,

It’s smiling at the new person at work that you meet;

It’s respect for all nations, color and creeds,

It’s sharing and caring for your neighbor’s needs

One of God’s greatest laws you can live and believe,

Is the more that you give, the more you’ll receive!

Seeds of Greatness is one of those all-time classics that ranks right up there with Think & Grow Rich, How To Win Friends and Influence People and so on.

Best of all, it is Waitleys signiture material, not somebodyelses material presented in a different way. In Seeds of Greatness, you will learn the 10 best kept secrets to total success.

This one is a gem. Get it and use it. Great stuff. – Customer

I have a distrust for self-help books in general. I heard this one was good, and bought it second-hand for less than a dollar. Waitley pointed out ten important traits of high-achieving people. To me, the more interesting ones among them are: persevarence and having definite goals in life. The book contains ten chapters corresponding to the ten traits. In each chapter he explains what he means by a particular trait, and gives examples to illustrate what he means, and how this trait is important. I quite often found his examples not very convincing or even irrelevant. For instance, in the chapter “The Seed of Purpose”, he gave this example of how his children got him into buying a dog he didn’t want to buy. I wasn’t quite sure what he wanted to show by that example, if he had to include it in his book, it should probably be better included in the chapter “perseverance”.

Still, many of the things from the book are true. Such as having a well-defined goal. But most people probably know them to start with. The hard part is to get the readers into action. And I don’t think this book is particularly better at it than similar ones. – FH

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All of my writing is God – given . I don’t write my stories – they write themselves. So out of my imagination , I create these wonderful things, and I look at them and say, My God, did I write that?… Everything comes to me.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a Muse | Lateral Action