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I really like documentaries about nature and this is a good show on Netflix about nature.

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Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series.

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This is another documentary that I like. This is also on Netflix.

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Albert Einstein was a very smart and important person that contributed to todays society.

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Intuition, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded.

Gigerenzer, author of the book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, says that he is both intuitive and rational. "In my scientific work, I have hunches. I can't explain always why I think a certain path is the right way, but I need to trust it and go ahead. I also have the ability to check these hunches and find out what they are about. That's the science part. Now, in private life, I rely on instinct. For instance, when I first met my wife, I didn't do computations. Nor did she."

I'm telling you this because recently one of my readers, Joy Boleda, posed a question that stopped me in my tracks:
What about intuition? It has never been titled as a form of intelligence, but would you think that someone who has great intuition in things, has more intelligence?
My "gut instinct" is to say yes, especially when we are talking about people who are already intellectually curious, rigorous in their pursuit of knowledge, and willing to challenge their own assumptions.

Let me put this a bit simpler. If all you do is sit in a chair and trust your intuition, you are not exercising much intelligence. But if you take a deep dive into a subject and study numerous possibilities, you are exercising intelligence when your gut instinct tells you what is - and isn't - important.

In some respects, intuition could be thought of as a clear understanding of collective intelligence. For example, most web sites are today organized in an intuitive way, which means they are easy for most people to understand and navigate. This approach evolved after many years of chaos online, as a common wisdom emerged over what information was superfluous and what was essential (i.e. About Us = essential).

Theo Humphries argues that intuitive design can be described as "understandable without the use of instructions". This is true when an object makes sense to most people because they share a common understanding of the way things work.

You might say that I'm a believer in the power of disciplined intuition. Do your legwork, use your brain, share logical arguments, and I'll trust and respect your intuitive powers. But if you merely sit in your hammock and ask me to trust your intuition, I'll quickly be out the door without saying goodbye.

I say this from personal experience; the more research I do, the better my intuition works.

Although this may be a paraphrase of his thoughts on the subject, Albert Einstein has been widely quoted as saying, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

Sometimes, a corporate mandate or group-think or your desire to produce a certain outcome can cause your rational mind to go in the wrong direction. At times like these, it is intuition that holds the power to save you. That "bad feeling" gnawing away at you is your intuition telling you that no matter how badly you might wish to talk yourself into this direction, it is the wrong way to go.

Smart people listen to those feelings. And the smartest people among us - the ones who make great intellectual leaps forward - cannot do this without harnessing the power of intuition.

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Intuition Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence

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Intuition, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded. Gigerenzer, author of the book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, says that he is both intuitive and rational.

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Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and was a very intuitive person much like Albert Einstein.

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Though Steve Jobs was born a little under two months before Albert Einstein's death, both the visionary co-founder of Apple and the most influential physicist of the 20th century agree that one trait was at the heart of their success: intuition.

With the iPhone turning 10 today, the mobile device serves as a longstanding testament to Job's successes and intuitive nature.

In his self-titled biography, Jobs touted the power of intuition and described its impact on his work at the helm of Apple. "Intuition is a very powerful thing," he told writer Walter Isaacson, "more powerful than intellect."

Notably, Merriam-Webster defines intuition as "quick and ready insight."

At the time of its launch, competing smartphones, like Blackberry, were using QWERTY keyboards and styluses. The iPhone's innovative design featuring a multi-touch screen, completely revamped the style of smartphones as we know it and propelled Apple as a leader in mobile technology.

In a 2005 Stanford speech, Jobs again credited his intuitive mind as having a significant impact on his work. "You have to trust in something," he said. "Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

Jobs added, "This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

Rewind a few decades and Albert Einstein was facing criticism for challenging centuries of scientific thought.

One would assume that Einstein favored logic over intuition, but the reverse is true. Einstein is widely quoted as saying, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."

The objection to Einstein's groundbreaking theory of relativity in the 1920s was unprecedented and extremely fierce, but the physicist followed his instinct and stood by his work. Einstein's general theory of relativity is now renowned as a pinnacle of modern-day physics.

"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," Einstein once told a friend, according to Psychology Today. "At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."
See also: 4 reasons why Buffett's partner Charlie Munger considers Albert Einstein his hero

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Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein both attributed their extraordinary success to this personality trait

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Though Steve Jobs was born a little under two months before Albert Einstein's death, both the visionary co-founder of Apple and the most influential physicist of the 20th century agree that one trait was at the heart of their success: intuition.

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"Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions" (Emerson) This quote is an example of simplicity because truth is always simple but when people try to change the truth it gets complicated.

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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great" (Emerson) I think this is another good quote about simplicity because greatness can arise from being simple and different.

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"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself" (Thoreau) This is also a good example of simplicity because there is nothing more simple than nature and having a relaxing day.

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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature... - Henry David Thoreau quotes at AZquotes.com

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"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust" (Thoreau) I think this quote is a good example of simplicity because it shows that people who are well known and loved are not always extremely smart but are trust worthy, thus being simple.

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

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I think this poem is a good example of meditation because it goes deep into descriptions and feelings.

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There are many reasons why a woman falls
to the floor. An optimist surely imagines
lovemaking, or the uncontrollable writhing

of modern dance that sweeps across the stage,
not a harsh plunge onto hardwood, the tumble
so sudden one thinks the old furniture

has slipped, crashed, cracked the tile.
Let's work backward. She is lying there
screaming her husband's name. The right

tube gave up, gave out
like an old rubber tire does after much
wear. All it needed was a nail. All it took

was an embryo to get stuck along its path,
the pressure unbearable, and the day before
no increased human chorionic gonadotropin,

though twenty days of bleeding while
going back and forth to the hardware store
to mend the fixer-upper, same age as her,

fallen siding, withered eaves,
should have been the obvious sign.
So, she is lying there and the husband

rushes her to the emergency room
and she does not die as the doctor
said she would have had she not signed

the paperwork. When she wakes
she discovers the tube is gone,
couldn't be saved. On the television

an old black and white with wagons,
women in ankle-length skirts, poke
bonnets almost like a trap for hair,

boots full of dust, their hands rough
as pumice stone. And if these
settlers fell to the floor, she wonders,

who would come, who would hear them
and realize those long aprons had become
flags fluttering at the cabin door?

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Sorry for mercury strewn in veins of fish,for traces of carbon monoxide loose in the air,for radiation that circles and enters the aura.Sorry for deliberate puffs and sipslate in the night, for an empty stomachburning with coffee grounds,for words of magma, thoughts rough as tufascratching the indivisible cells, fragile nerves,divisions of labor and function,for scraping skin until it bled, garnetscars in constellation form, for chemicalsbathing in a pool of genetics, under viral stars.

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This show is literally about nature. It talks about all the different types of animals and plants that live on our planet.

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Seven Worlds, One Planet | BBC Earth | BBC Earth

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The series will celebrate the diversity of life on each of these continents, but also the challenges faced by animals in a modern world.

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The movie Avatar is about fictional creatures that live on a different planet and they live in forests much like earth.

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The movie Kong: Skull Island is a good movie that involves a fictional giant gorilla that controls and lives on an island in the pacific ocean.

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2017, Adventure/Action, 1h 58m
387 Reviews 50,000+ Ratings

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Offering exhilarating eye candy, solid acting, and a fast-paced story, Kong: Skull Island earns its spot in the movie monster's mythos without ever matching up to the classic original. Read critic reviews

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Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong.

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Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong.

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I think this is a good example because the song is about not giving up.
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
"Don't stop believin
Hold onto that feeling
Streetlight people"

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Don't Stop Believin' Lyrics: Just a small-town girl, livin' in a lonely world / She took the midnight train goin' anywhere / Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit / He took the midnight train goin

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I think this is a good example because the song is about self esteem. Self Esteem by The Offspring
"I may be dumb
But I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self esteem"

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Lyrics

I wrote her off for the tenth time today
And practice all the things I would say
But she came over
I lost my nerve
I took her back and made her dessert
Now I know I'm being used
That's okay man cause I like the abuse
I know she's playing with me
That's okay cause I got no self esteem

We make plans to go out at night
I wait till 2 then I turn out the light
All this rejection's got me so low
If she keeps it up I just might tell her so

When she's saying that she wants only me
Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends
When she's saying that I'm like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can spend
Well I guess I should stick up for myself
But I really think it's better this way
The more you suffer
The more it shows you really care
Right? Yeah yeah yeah

Now I'll relate this little bit
That happens more than I'd like to admit
Late at night she knocks on my door
Drunk again and looking to score
Now I know I should say no
But that's kind of hard when she's ready to go
I may be dumb
But I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self esteem

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I wrote her off for the tenth time today And practice all the things I would say But she came over I lost my nerve I took her back and made her dessert Now I know I'm being used That's okay man cause I like the abuse I know she's

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This is a good example of non-conformity because this is what's happening in our country right now.

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This is an example of non- conformity because instead of following with the rest, the on guy decides to be itself.

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Inventions, innovations and improvisations are very important for mankind be it any field. Why, because if we didn't we would still be living a primitive life and have to hunt for our food as against it being made logistically convenient for us today. We would also succumb to the first acquired disease or health condition be it common cold or kidney stone and also make do with rudimentary entertainment as against the plethora of choices available. Inventions and innovations elicit human potential to progressive levels of experience.

There are enough communities in the world who are content to live without such requisites but testing the human mind, knowing what it is capable of achieving and how it changes the way we live, act, move, share, communicate and experience is always invigorating. Besides we are a darned curious lot hence just can't sit still with the abundant intelligence we have been endowed with. Leaving the world by making it a better place than how we found it is a good cause. Inventions and innovation will happen with absolute certitude and at quicker pace than attained in the past. To create these inventions and innovations in a world that is changing in discernible ways, conventional methods of thinking are inadequate. It needs deviation from traditional path, simultaneity of ideas, and damnation of erstwhile perceptions. For this to happen, one needs to explore atypical thoughts and ignite imagination. In short bear hug nonconformity.

CREATIVITY

Non-conformity is one of the apertures to creativity and invention. Non-conformity is the unwillingness to conform to well-established customs, conventions, practices, attitudes, formulations, beliefs or ideas. When most seem to be going in one direction, it feels exhilarating when one takes a divergent path but just for the sake of differentiation if this path is embraced it may technically fit the rubric of 'nonconformity' but isn't quite it. The path selection or attempt to deviate has to have some logic, level of faith, conviction, purpose and then it can be a meaningful one. From an existential point of view only that meaning exists which one attaches to life hence any path divergent from the masses, for the path-changer regardless of whether it has a higher purpose or not, in essence is also nonconformity but regardless of these philosophical inclinations the chief message is that a mission to invent and innovate with a deliberate purpose taps human intelligence a tad better than accidental inventions or innovations. The art of creating with premeditated intent has excitability about it.
SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS
All scientific inventions are either a result of non-conformist thinking e.g. electricity, IC engines, Paper, Aero plane, Automobile, Telephone etc. or serendipitous discoveries with examples such as Penicillin, Post it notes, X-Ray, Corn flakes, Pacemaker, Microwave Oven and hordes of others. Scientists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Tesla, Einstein, Edison, Marie Curie, Sir Alexander Fleming, and others have been credited with many accolades for their inventions, discoveries and innovations but their formative education and the foundational aspects that they built into their knowledge framework is built by sturdy conformity to certain theorems, hypothesis, mathematics, physics and pertinent tenets of science and other subjects. Whist upon their respective endeavour they got a spark, chose a nonconformist path to experiment and remained persistent upon it which eventuated in sensational inventions that we enjoy today.
HYBRID MODEL
Groucho Marx, Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa from non business world as well as Steve Jobs (Apple), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Larry Page (Google), Richard Branson (Virgin), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Mark Parker (NIKE) from the business world all were/are non-conformists in their respective areas. Non-conformists need not be deified or perceived with excessive extolment, it is another attitude. Doesn't make the achievements of conformists with a disciplined and systematic approach less significant. One cannot succeed merely by embracing non-conformity all the time. It has to be a hybrid model of conformity and nonconformity. An innovation team with nonconformist creative people alone is bound to fail. It needs conformists to execute those ideas that need to fructify into terrific products. Military personnel of any country have necessarily got to be trained to fit a lifestyle of inordinate discipline, unquestioned faith, belief in orders, acquiescence to rank & hierarchy etc. After initial drill, training or call it indoctrination, all of which can be categorized as 'conformity based behavioural induction', as one gets into strategic roles we see risk taking interspersed with nonconformity w.r.t war scenarios. These days in defense organizations, the drill and 'fencing in' is so pronounced that most key decisions happen with multiple checks, such is the system conformity sought. This may be apt for defense as the cause is gargantuan with dire implications hence need multiple checks but this form of regimentation in thinking is precisely what needs to be avoided by top leaders running modern organizations. It is a leadership mandate to create the proper mixture of nonconformists vs. conformists whilst forming teams whose mission is to seek innovation. Can one survive as a non-conformist, well people need to belong to some community hence throughout life it will be a concoction of conformity and nonconformity.
BEING DISTINCT
Risk taking is an important trait noticed in non-conformists. Young people have tremendous need to be non-conformists, do something distinctive, create alarmist fashion sense, hair cuts, tattoos, substance use, experiment with heavy metal music with its amplified distortions, macho image and aggression. Actually that remark is a bit unfair on youth, there are young people pursuing excellence, education, accomplishment and the likes but we are attempting to address that segment of youth bereft of such traits. Coming back to the music example, out of this non-conformism emerged hugely successful bands with their audacious lifestyle, which in turn fuelled a legion of followers. The genesis of music from the gentle blues, jazz and country categories to the more rock, heavy metal, progressive trance and death metal convey the story of nonconformity and the lyrics insinuate anti-establishment sentiment in someway. Whether there was a purpose to this transition or it began as a much awaited outlet to repression or a need to be perceived differently, is conjecture.

Just being anti establishment or rebelling against a corporate idea or system doesn't make one a non-conformist. It is a puerile representation and hankering for attention. Non conformity is segregated into two categories . Criminals are non-conformists. They don't obey societal laws and often infringe upon it. This is negative non-conformity but in a corporate parlance non-conformity denotes a radical different idea, creativity etc. that is positive non-conformity. How does one become a non-conformist; stop caring about what people think all the time, experiment with life, challenge every belief that you nurse, stretch boundaries, seek constant change in everything that you do, be well read, skillful, informative and knowledgeable in order to do something with the nonconformity.

Theodore Roosevelt whilst on a hunting expedition in Brazil in 1913 by the river Amazon witnessed piranhas attack a cow with shocking ferocity and after a while the skeleton of the cow floated to the surface. Some organizations may be filled with people who stretch the credibility of any idea akin to the ferocious piranhas and strip most ideas of its nutriment before even it is fully represented thereby compelled to remain in conformity. They don't notice the impediment; it is their years of practice and subconscious behaviour due to lack of awareness and then the firm wonders why they are out of business. Encourage nonconformity and make it useful to the company and the society as against merely a behavioural manifestation.

TYPES OF CONFORMITY:

To delve a little into conformity let us seek technical help from Leon Mann (1969) and Herbert Kelman (1958). Mann stated, "The essence of conformity is yielding to group pressure". He identified three types of conformity:

Herbert Kelman distinguished between three different types of conformity:

Let us understand these and its intertwined tenets.

Yielding to group pressure because a person wants to fit in with the group or conforming because the person is scared of being rejected by the group. This type of conformity usually involves Compliance - where a person publicly accepts the views of a group but privately rejects them. Childhood groups leading to groupism and bullying is a common example. During Nazi regime there were many Germans who didn't subscribe to the Nazi propaganda but had to comply due to scare of being an outcast.

This usually occurs when a person lacks knowledge and looks to the group for guidance or when a person is in an unclear situation and socially compares their behavior with the group. This type of conformity usually involves Internalization - publicly changing behaviour to fit in with the group and also agreeing with them privately as well as acceptance of the views of the groups and adopting them as an individual. Most learning happens this way be it academics or these days online. One is open and malleable to external inputs and internalizes the information. At an unconscious level even a child learns this way as the child construes that parents possess more knowledge than themselves. Group therapy also works this way.

Where a person conforms to impress or gain favor/acceptance from other people. It is similar to normative influence but is motivated by the need for social rewards rather than the threat of rejection, i.e., group pressure does not enter the decision to conform. Students being nice to teachers and the ever green corporate ingratiation to gain favours from the boss are classic examples.

Identification is conforming to the expectations of a social role. It is similar to compliance, but there is no mandatory need to have a change in private opinion.
CONCLUSION:
Most of us oscillate between these types of conformity listed above and strictly speaking all of us are conditioned from childhood hence we grew with conformity. A 7-year old child is neither powerful to abandon his rituals, beliefs, religion, education etc. nor has the awareness as to what precisely he needs to pursue incase he manages to liberate himself from conditioning. What are the chances his new environment is devoid of conditioning? Once we attain cognitive awareness about the world around us as well as understand the existence of choices we are in a position to slowly experiment with life and abandon conformity in seeking a career or any aspect of our life. A 7-year old can't but a 17-year-old can seek non-conformity. With reasonable approximation one can say that traces of nonconformity brews from the age of 17 to 22 depending on nation to nation and various societies within each nation.

Often we hear the cliché ' When we were young, we could take more risks' but this is untrue. Risk taking is not just an age phenomenon. It is a product of conditioning in which the predominant facilitator is societal acceptance of failures in case of misadventure of an enterprise or idea. America encourages it and their society is forgiving hence free enterprise flourishes with splendour there. Chapter 11 rescue and reformation exist, as a way for people to bounce back from bankruptcy hence the society is more risk prone and entrepreneurial. It is suspending adventure, remaining disenfranchised from risk taking and sticking with conformity throughout life that alienates people from possibilities. From a leadership perspective, such behaviour has to be discouraged and the effectiveness with which this can be achieved depends on the risk taking quotient of the leadership teams and the firm as a whole. Encourage risk taking and nonconformity; not the Marc Marquez MotoGP kind of risks but a little less daring, a little less frequent but a tad more informed ones. As Dr. Robert Anthony puts it "The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."

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Inventions, innovations and improvisations are very important for mankind be it any field. Why, because if we didn't we would still be living a primitive life and have to hunt for our food as against it being made logistically convenient for us today. We would also succumb to the first acquired disease or health condition...