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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.

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Speaker 2: Randall Fitzgerald began his journalism career in nineteen seventy four

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Speaker 2: in Washington, DC as an investigative reporter for syndicated columnist

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Speaker 2: Jack Anderson Remember him. He has since written for The

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Speaker 2: Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and for twenty years

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Speaker 2: as an editor with the Reader's Digest. Randall is the

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Speaker 2: author of several books, including Lucky You, Proven Strategies you

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Speaker 2: Can Use to Find your Fortune, and his latest, The

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Speaker 2: Towe of Intuitive Luck, Winning at Games of Chance in

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Speaker 2: the Game of Life. Randall, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: God, thank you George. It's always a pleasure to be

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Speaker 3: with you, especially in a new year, and.

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Speaker 2: We are lucky to have you as a guest, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Ah, lucky me to be with you. It's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: How did you stumble into luck? How did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I think it came about as a result of that

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Speaker 3: old song. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: have no luck at all. I was feeling that way,

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Speaker 3: and I was having a streak of what seemed to

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Speaker 3: be bad luck that was seemingly beyond my control. And

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Speaker 3: this was so twenty some odd years ago, and as

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Speaker 3: a result, I was going through a divorce and I

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Speaker 3: was having to sell my house, and quite a few

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Speaker 3: things were coalescing that felt like negative energy, and so

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Speaker 3: I was curious about what was going on. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: just the obvious that there was some undercurrent of something else.

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Speaker 3: And as I felt into it, I began to think

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Speaker 3: in terms of good luck and bad luck being sort

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Speaker 3: of like what the Japanese called the strands, the twisted strands.

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Speaker 1: Of a rope.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's hard to separate good luck from bad luck.

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Speaker 3: And the more I felt into it, the more I

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Speaker 3: decided to conduct some experiments, some luck related experiments, just

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Speaker 3: to see if I could change my luck. And it

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Speaker 3: wasn't just about changing my attitudes or behaviors, although that

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Speaker 3: was part of it. It was about sensing an energetic

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Speaker 3: flow that could be more positive. And so I began

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Speaker 3: doing experiments, and I began looking at the local Native

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Speaker 3: American casinos in my county. Here in Lake County, northern California,

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Speaker 3: we had four of them. So I decided to treat

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Speaker 3: these casinos as a luck laboratory, just to test out

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Speaker 3: my love. And I went and I never really gambled

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Speaker 3: before and wasn't something that appealed to me, but I

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Speaker 3: decided to try my luck go by changing my attitude process.

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Speaker 3: Sure enough, I went on a lux streak. And you know,

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Speaker 3: unfortunately Gambler's anonymous meetings people tell stories like this all

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Speaker 3: the time. Oh, I went on a luck streak, and

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Speaker 3: then I got hooked and gambling became habitual. Well, I

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Speaker 3: was intent on this not happening to me, so I

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Speaker 3: tried to regulate it as much as I could, and

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Speaker 3: with my attitudes and behaviors. And then by feeling into

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Speaker 3: the energetic flow, which I began realize was all about intuition,

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Speaker 3: I began to see a change in my luck fortunes

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Speaker 3: as a result of that. So that was sort of

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Speaker 3: the inspiration.

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Speaker 2: George now tell us about the title the Towel of

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Speaker 2: intuitive Lot.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, the talent is a Chinese word that means pathway.

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Speaker 3: We've heard of Taoism, and Taoism is a bowel of

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Speaker 3: a spiritual practice that involves a pathway. And I began,

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Speaker 3: you may recall back in the nineteen seventies, there was

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Speaker 3: a book called The twe of Physics, and it was

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Speaker 3: a book about new science and how physics was leading

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Speaker 3: to a whole series of discoveries about the subatomic world.

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Speaker 3: And I realized that when it came to discoveries that

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Speaker 3: we each individually have about our own capacity for influencing

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Speaker 3: our luck fortunes and tuning into an intuition wavelength that

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Speaker 3: we each have, that there was a pathway here as well,

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Speaker 3: And that's why I ended up naming the book the

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Speaker 3: Towel Intuitive Luck.

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Speaker 2: Now you talk about five intuitive luck principles that make

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Speaker 2: life decisions. What are they?

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Speaker 3: Well, the first one is feeling into your intuition. We

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Speaker 3: all experience intuition in somewhat different ways. Is some people

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Speaker 3: feel intuition as the gut hunch, where they'll feel it

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Speaker 3: in their solar plexus or in their gastro intestinal tract,

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Speaker 3: and that will be interpreted as I need to act,

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Speaker 3: I need to do this whatever when that feeling comes up,

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Speaker 3: and then the act on that other people And I'll

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Speaker 3: talk about this later, George, about the difference between the

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Speaker 3: heart and the gut. Because a lot of studies science

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Speaker 3: studies have been done on this, but women tend to

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Speaker 3: feel intuition more in their heart. Men tend to feel

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Speaker 3: it more in their gut. That's the term gut hunch.

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Speaker 3: So the first intuitive luck factor is we have to

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Speaker 3: learn how we individually feel most intensely that sensation of

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Speaker 3: intuition in order to be able to act on it.

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Speaker 3: The second factor that goes with that is you have

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Speaker 3: to set an intention. You have to want to be

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Speaker 3: able to learn how to sense your intuitive channel and

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Speaker 3: how that emerges, and so intentions are important. And then

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Speaker 3: the third one is quieting your mind, learning how to

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Speaker 3: put space between our thoughts, learning how to slow everything down,

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Speaker 3: and that for some people is through meditation, for some

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Speaker 3: people it's through affirmations or mantras. There are a variety

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Speaker 3: of ways to go about it, but that goes hand

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Speaker 3: in hand with the intention and with the intuition. And

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Speaker 3: then number four of the five is learning how to

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Speaker 3: channel your excitement. This is where the whole idea of

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Speaker 3: beginner's luck comes in. And I studied beginner's luck. You

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Speaker 3: know what are the attitudes and behaviors associated with it,

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Speaker 3: And sure enough we can willfully recreate that sensation that

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Speaker 3: we may have had at different times in life where

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Speaker 3: we try something new and we become very good at

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Speaker 3: it intuitively, Well, how do we recreate that? So that's

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Speaker 3: number four and number five is programming our dreams. A

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Speaker 3: lot of our intuition emerges at the unconscious level through

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Speaker 3: our dream life, So how do we manipulate that control

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Speaker 3: of that? How do we facilitate that more readily in

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Speaker 3: our life? And that was something else that became a

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Speaker 3: real intense research topic for this book.

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Speaker 2: Randall, is any one of the fives more important than

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Speaker 2: the other?

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Speaker 3: Well, of course the intuition is, but all of the

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Speaker 3: others are aspects of intuition. Setting the intention to be

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Speaker 3: more intuitive, you know, it's like a New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 3: You set resolutions and hopefully we live by them for

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Speaker 3: a period of time. And then with us resolutions, we

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Speaker 3: have actions attached and we try to monitor our progress. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's the same with setting the intention of being more intuitive,

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Speaker 3: once you get the principles down, once you have experimented,

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Speaker 3: and we're all guinea pigs in our own life experiments.

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Speaker 3: So intuition is the same way. We begin to experiment

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Speaker 3: to find out the best ways to release it. And

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Speaker 3: so they're all intertwined George all five of these principles,

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Speaker 3: But it all begins with learning how to sense our

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Speaker 3: own intuitive channel and much like a radio station and

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Speaker 3: turning the dial in order to actually get the best reception.

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Speaker 3: That's part of the whole practice of it all.

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Speaker 2: And it's important I think that people from all walks

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Speaker 2: of lives and careers to use their intuitiveness, not necessarily

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Speaker 2: for luck walking into a casino, but in their day

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Speaker 2: to day activities, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, you know, in our lives, and we're by

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Speaker 3: nature as human beings, we're risk takers. I mean, even

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Speaker 3: when we're adverse to risk and we try to avoid

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Speaker 3: risk of you know, much like good luck and bad luck.

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Speaker 3: It's the flip side, you know, because we're still at

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Speaker 3: the mercy of risk and risk taking and fortune and

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Speaker 3: misfortune no matter what we do to one accent or another.

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Speaker 3: So why not be very conscious of it and trying

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Speaker 3: to go with the flow of it, because there does

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Speaker 3: seem to be an energetic flow attached to it all.

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Speaker 2: Is there any particular career that uses this better than another?

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Speaker 3: I asked myself that in doing the interviews for this book,

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Speaker 3: I interviewed a wide variety of people that you intuition

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Speaker 3: in their lives of business people, people that invest in

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Speaker 3: the stock market, people that have careers that involved danger.

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Speaker 3: For instance, I interviewed a number of highway patrolmen here

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Speaker 3: in California to try to get a sense of how

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Speaker 3: they use intuition to sense danger and to avoid dangerous situations.

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Speaker 3: And there was one highway patrolman in particular who became

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Speaker 3: a good friend, Dan Frederick, who had been like the

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Speaker 3: highway patrolman of the year, and he was really known

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Speaker 3: as someone who used his intuition on the job whenever

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Speaker 3: he would stop a vehicle in order to sense the

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Speaker 3: intentions of the driver, and as a result, he was

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Speaker 3: able using intuition to get himself out of a lot

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Speaker 3: of very prickly situations on the job. And the military

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Speaker 3: there's another good example. You may have heard stories about

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Speaker 3: soldiers who would walk on the perimeter, who would have

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Speaker 3: a second third sense it seemed about what was happening,

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Speaker 3: what the danger prospects were. You've heard the expression, oh,

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Speaker 3: he was able to sense or he was able to

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Speaker 3: smell the enemy. Well, what did that really mean? And

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Speaker 3: the more I dived into it by asking a series

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Speaker 3: of questions, the more I discovered that it was all

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Speaker 3: about intuition and heightened states of intuition that sometimes firefighters

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Speaker 3: have it. You know, anyone who goes into dangerous situations,

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Speaker 3: they have to sharpen their instincts, and that's the terminology

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Speaker 3: they often use. But at the core of it, it's

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Speaker 3: about picking up intuitive signals in the body and responding

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Speaker 3: to them in an accurate way that either leads them

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Speaker 3: away from danger or puts them in a situation where

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Speaker 3: they're able to save the lives of people.

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