Positive personality trait
Intuitive
Able to understand or sense something quickly, without reasoning through every step.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Senses that something is off in a conversation, a plan or a set of figures before they can say why.
- Makes a sound call quickly when there is no time to work through every step.
- Checks a hunch against the facts before acting on anything important.
Fits when a person often grasps patterns without consciously tracing every step
Not when you mean a product is easy to use, or a hunch is being treated as proof
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: a hunch cannot be checked on paper, and the claim can sound like guesswork. Describe a call you made and the result it led to, or let a reference say how often your judgment proved right.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is intuitive with [clients, patients or readers]: more than once they sensed [a problem or need] before the evidence was in, and the evidence later bore them out.
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Report card comment [Name] has an intuitive feel for [subject or skill] and often sees the answer before working through the steps; the next step is showing that work on paper.
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In a story, shown not told The accounts balanced, but she kept turning back to the March page. On the fourth pass she found two errors that had canceled each other out.
The intuitive editor sensed where readers would pause before the test results arrived.
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