D. Kahneman book: "Thinking, Fast & Slow"

I just started it. A great deal of what we decide, what we choose, which options we take, is a result of intuition at work, but it may well be colored by a priori assumptions and judgments which serve to mitigate positive results. Intuition is "thinking fast" via a broad impression of the way things are, and what we should expect, and it is heightened and refined over time. Chess experts and Investment Managers often have an intuitive function which has been sharpened over a long period of time, as a result of combining intuition with the more particular work of "statistical thinking." It's something like instantaneous recognition. "Statistical thinking" takes more effort, more concentration. We are being more detailed and granular when we resort to this other system, which Kahneman calls "System 2."

A great start. Fascinating.
Even though I'm just several pages into it, my own mind races to another use of the term intuition: it's the Myers Briggs Personality Type Inventory. If you don't lie when answering the questions, it's uncanny how that tool can "nail" your Type (1 of 16.) I scored highest on Intuition myself, so I'm very much in tune with what Prof. Kahneman is into, here. Pardon the expression, but I can intuitively understand the distinction between the 2 Systems he's describing. At least THAT much has come easily, after opening the book. Quite interesting, indeed.