Thank you for your comments on the importance of hard work and repetition RT Wolf. I did not mean to imply that there was a free lunch with intuition. Many of my philosophies have come from years of pondering, studying, and feeling.
I am a scientist, educator, and musician and have not come to my conclusions lightly. I have been in the trenches for many years.
I am not trying to downplay the importance of left-brain learning. I have a B.S. in Music Education, an M.T. in Computer Science, an Ed.S. and Ph.D. in Computing Technology in Education, and 21 hours toward a 2nd Ph.D. in Information Systems (I have had my head buried in textbooks and peer-reviewed journals for way too long!).
I also teach music instruction on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, voice, and music technology. I currently play in a Texas Music band and have performed in all of these capacities for a number of years.
I am obsessive-compulsive by nature and have spent a great many hours over the last 38 years honing my left and right brain skills.
My intent with my post was to get people to think. There is a lot of hard work performed on left-brain training in school. The same does not hold true of right-brain training - it is almost non-existent in our school systems. There will certainly be differences of opinion on what repurcussions are of such imbalance, or on the possiblities afforded with correct whole-brain training. But it takes discourse like this to address all issues involved in order to inspire people to change their world.
I do have many intuitive insights now that just "come to me", but this is mostly because of the blood and sweat I've poured into practicing and developing my intuition over a period of years.
Mike Estep PhD
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