Конкурсное эссе Пин Ольги Леонидовны, учителя английского языка средней школы №135 с углубленным изучением английского языка Выборгского района Санкт-Петербурга
We make decisions every day, so it is important to avoid mistakes. Many people believe that common sense is crucial for this, whereas others rely on intuition.
To my mind, we should trust our intuition. To begin with, making decisions intuitively allows us accept information from beyond ourselves. If your logic says a person is trustworthy, whereas your intuition warns you to be careful, believe the latter one, since it might be your guardian angel’s voice. Furthermore, intuitive decisions can be made correctly by everyone, whereas your ability to think critically depends on your knowledge. If you have no pedagogical education, you will not be able to raise your children basing on logics, but intuition might make you a good parent. To top everything, there is something more than brain to areas like medicine and they simply demand intuition. You cannot be a doctor unless you feel each patient’s organism.
On the other hand, some people argue that critical thinking is more reliable. They say it is available for everyone, while intuition demands the ability to immerse in your inner world, so it cannot be used anytime. For instance, if you have to make a decision quickly being in a company of many people, you are unlikely to hear what your intuition is trying to say.
However, I cannot agree with this opinion, since these people fail to understand that the skills to interpret your feelings can easily be developed through practice. The more you use your intuition, the more effectively it works.
To conclude, the subject is extremely controversial. Anyway, I am strongly convinced that we should trust our intuition more than critical thinking.