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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from author Michael Michalko.  Michael is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition), Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck, and Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius.

You may not know Richard Cohen. He is the author of Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir.  He lives a life defined by illness. He has M.S., is legally blind, has almost …

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If you know the type of problem you’re dealing with, you can handle it more effectively.  One of the best skills you can master in life is problem solving.  One of the keys to effective problem solving  is knowing what kind of problem you’re dealing with.  For example, is this a unique problem, a pattern of a problem, or an exception?  Knowing the type of problem helps you choose the most effective strategy.  In The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on …

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In my previous post, I wrote about Balancing Your Intuition and Reason, but what if you aren’t very intuitive?  Is there a way to develop your intuition?  What if you just want to improve?  Those are some of the questions I set out to answer.   In the book, Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) , Michael Michalko provides exercises for improving your intuition.
Intuition Must Be Developed According to Michalko, you improve through practice:
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