[darkwater]

I don't know. Growing up and seeing life and people around me I firmly believe that if you have enough brain power and intuition for $TOPIC you can speed-run it. At the same time, with time and experience and doing/re-doing it, you will learn or master $TOPIC [1] even with less brain power.

[1] Depending on the topic and the level of knowledge of it.

[nkrisc]

1. Intuition mostly “muscle-memory” earned from previous experience.

2. Don’t assume you’re the next Mozart. Someone is, statistically it’s not you.

[darkwater]

Maybe it's just muscle-memory, but clearly there are brains which develop it 100x faster than others, depending on the topic. See the aforementioned Mozart and the music topic. I think there are a lot of young and not so young adults whose peak performance in instrument playing is equal to Mozart's at age 8.

[nkrisc]

There are always exceptional cases that won’t apply to just about everyone else. Mozart did more than just play instruments.

[rimliu]

Isn't intuition just distilled experience?

[darkwater]

It can be but it can also be derived by raw brain power, IMO, and that's my point. You can understand how something work by simulating many mental models quickly in your mind, comparing them and deciding the one that makes more sense, or you can be overwhelmed by doing this and be unsuccessful at it. But with the years and experience you actually distill that understanding, and you are able to apply it to other similar topics as well.