When Experience Becomes Intuition with Maria Di Pietro
After more than 25 years as a psychologist, Maria Di Pietro often knows something about the person sitting in front of her. She can’t necessarily explain how. She calls it intuition. But, “It’s intuition with experience.” What happens to our experience when we’ve accumulated so much of it that we no longer consciously think through what […]
I Can See Your Potential Before You Can with Maria Di Pietro
Sometimes other people can see something in us that we can’t yet see ourselves. After more than 25 years as a psychologist, Maria Di Pietro says she can often see the potential in people before they can see it themselves. Earlier in her career, that frustrated her. If she could see what was possible, why […]
Experience is Just a Memory with Mark Molony
We often talk about learning from experience. But what if experience isn’t what we think it is? In this excerpt from my On Experience conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, we explore a surprising idea: Perhaps we don’t carry our experiences forward at all. Perhaps we carry our memories of those experiences. And if memory is […]