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How Wisdom seems to Work All of us can picture scenarios in our minds when thoughts have suddenly dropped in "out of the blue". Wisdom, too, seems to descend on us, usually just when we need it, but sometimes when it might provide a lesson to us after we've messed up a situation where a dollop of wisdom might have helped. In any case, neither emergent thought (commonly called ideas) nor wisdom can be commanded …

…without the necessity of having to do the numbers at all. I've talked to other engineers about this - they either mentioned that this had happened to them, too, or declared me certifiably insane. Perhaps even those who reject wisdom as nonsense make use of it. They might call it "being in alpha" or whatever works without getting them sneered at, but many do the wisdom / intuition thing, whether they'll admit to it or not.