Basic instinct

HANDS UP WHO liked all the memes on social media about 2020 vision and anticipated this would be a year of total clarity? In hindsight, expecting crystal-clear 2020 vision was wildly optimistic, but forgiveable if you can cast your mind back to calmer times before Australia’s summer bushfires, escalating concerns about climate change, COVID-19 chaos and stock market crashes.

Now, more than ever, as we are up to our necks in uncertainty, we need clear heads and agile thinking to navigate our way forward in a rapidly changing world.

It’s times like these when an in-built superpower would come in handy. Luckily, we all have one: it’s called intuition, and it’s been scientifically proven to exist. We just need to train ourselves to tap into it.

Gut feelings, hunches and inklings can strike us in