Learning Intuition… at Kindergarten

by Mattias
Gothenburg, Sweden

A few years back, I got a first hand glimpse of what we humans can do with our intuition. At the time, I had just recently heard about intuition and was intrigued but, honestly, had my doubts.

This is not a grand story of how my life was saved by intuition or how I understood the universe, no, this is a story on how I saved the day for a little girl…

I had a summer job at a kindergarten, a very nice job indeed. It was a hot and sunny day and I and four or five of the kids, had spent the whole day outside. In the afternoon, one of the girls came up to me and I could see that she was sad. She told me that she had lost a button from her skirt and she wanted me to help her look for it. Like many kids, she had full confidence that grownups are able to do anything.

I didn’t want to make her more upset so I said that I will look for it, but I thought to myself: “That button has probably been lost for hours, it can be literally anywhere, in the park, by the swings, we have even strolled through the town square. For all I know, she may have lost it in the car ride to the kindergarten that morning, if the skirt even had a button when she put it on.”

I sat down to figure out some sort of searching strategy when it hit me: I must try that intuition thing. I closed my eyes and thought of the button. Very soon, I felt a sort of a pull towards one of the sandboxes. I followed this hunch and behold, half buried in the sand was the button!