[sriku]

Helps to keep in mind Jeff Raskin's "theorem" - "Intuitive equals familiar". Although displaced from its original UI context, the reading of "gaining intuition = gaining familiarity" is spot on.

So if you're looking for intuition, you're looking for deep familiarity which means spending the time/effort it takes to get familiar.

Resources don't help much as they're almost always about someone else's "intuition". Struggle that leads into false turns and force you to backtrack help a lot more I think.

An example - some time ago, I told some colleagues that they've been dealing with convolution even before middle school .. which surprised them. Multiplying numbers is the same operation as convolving their digit sequences. But if you didn't fool around enough with multiplication, or try to relate it to algebra, polynomials, and such, this can be hard to see.

Edit:typo fixed