Insight is a special ability
An insightful person is one who is able to foresee upcoming events, has the ability to make the right conclusions in a certain situation and make the only correct decision at the appropriate moment.
Human insight is a unique ability that all inhabitants of our planet would like to have. This is an opportunity to see the real state of things, hidden behind many subjective factors of human life. We can say that insight is an objective attitude to the situation, which makes it possible to accurately predict future events, based only on your knowledge of what is happening.
But what does it mean to be a “discerning person”? This is a person who can easily determine the hidden essence of things, actions, events and people.
The important thing is that this is a calm individual who does not pay attention to external signs and behavior of other people. For him, it is not at all important whether a person has wealth or lack thereof. Only thanks to his inner instinct, based on his impressions, relying only on his inner self, he can achieve success in almost any area of life, finding the only correct action in any situation. This is what it means to be an insightful person!
Required qualities
Let's try to understand what qualities you need to have to be considered insightful. Undoubtedly, one of the main qualities is observation. Such a person notices details that are hidden from others.
It is possible to develop mindfulness. If you are an absent-minded person, don't worry. I bring to your attention the article “How to develop memory and attention in adults.” Just a few exercises and practices and you will become the most observant person.
But in addition to attentiveness and observation, an insightful person is distinguished by the ability to foresee. Now I’m not talking about clairvoyants and predictors of the future. Foresight - what is it? One who analyzes a situation and speculates on the possible outcome.
The simplest example. The husband stays late at work in a bar with colleagues. If he is perceptive, he will most likely predict his wife's reaction. Therefore, he will either warn her in advance so that she does not worry. Or he will give her a small gift upon returning home to distract her attention and talk calmly.
Thus, you and I understand that foresight is a complex analysis of numerous factors.
The ability to see possible consequences will be useful to you not only in your personal life, but also at work, in school, and in everyday life. I suggest you first read Vladimir Zazykin’s work “Fundamentals of the Psychology of Insight.”
A look into the soul
You can often hear the phrase “discerning eye.” And immediately there is a feeling that a slight trembling is passing through the body. We feel like we are being scanned, studied, examined without asking our permission. We understand that a penetrating gaze is an “X-ray”, a special sensitive “organ” of a person that helps him see through others, recognize the smallest details, nuances that would be hidden for ordinary people.
It is these abilities that make one wary of the owner of such capabilities. He is considered special, even having superpowers. Is it so?
External manifestation
Very often you can come across phrases such as “a penetrating look or voice.” What does it mean? How can a voice or a look be insightful? Let's start with the look.
Have you ever experienced a gaze that seems to penetrate into the deepest places of your soul? This is exactly the kind of look I call insightful.
When a person not only looks at you, but also notices the slightest changes in facial expressions, gestures, and mood. You just have to think about something, and he already expresses this thought.
Is it possible to learn such a view? Yes, if you really begin to notice details in the changes in the behavior of your interlocutor, learn to distinguish his facial expressions, and carefully monitor his gestures. Just don’t look too closely and suspiciously at the person. It's intimidating.
What is an insightful voice? For me it is always a calm, confident tone, even intonation. A voice like that can hypnotize you. You listen carefully to every word and try to understand the meaning of what was said. And you can easily learn such a voice.
I advise you to seek help from a public speaking school if you want to develop a similar skill in yourself. In addition, tongue twisters will always help you, which perfectly train diction, which plays an important role.
In general, an insightful person appears calm, confident, determined and courageous. If you do not feel such qualities in yourself, but you would like to acquire them, then I have an article for you “How to feel confident in any situation.”
How to develop insight
It should be noted that insight is not given to a person by nature as a gift. This is scrupulous work, daily work on yourself.
- Insight comes from years of experience. At the same time, it is not at all necessary that an insightful person is an old man of advanced age who wants to leave behind a legacy for his descendants. This may be a fairly young person, capable of analyzing and learning from other people’s mistakes, without missing the smallest details, and absorbing other people’s experience for his own life.
- Focusing your thoughts on the main thing is the basis of right decisions. You cannot focus your attention and hope that the situation will resolve itself. It is necessary to take into account all the points related to the desired issue, without missing even the smallest details.
- Clarification of all the nuances. Very often we feel there is a problem, but we are afraid to ask an extra question. Only the curious, those who are interested, clarify, get rid of unnecessary doubts.
Insight
Insight as a personality quality is the ability to observe, the ability to keenly notice, foresee, guess a lot, and comprehend something.
After passing the economics exam, students went to the public garden to celebrate. They had two bottles of vodka and no snacks with them. They drank the first bottle completely, but just started the second, and one of the students, wrapping the bottle with a cap, put it in his bag. Arriving home, he discovered that the bottle had spilled and spilled all over his belongings, including his grade book. A student comes to the dean's office to change his record book. There he finds the dean and the young teacher Belov. The dean takes the student’s damaged record book, looks at it and hands it to Belov with the words: “What do you think about this?”
Belov, having studied the grade book with interest, answers: “I think it was like this: after the exam, the students went to celebrate their successful completion in the public garden.” They had two bottles of vodka and no snacks with them. They drank the first bottle completely, but only started the second, and one of the students, closing the bottle with a cap, put it in his briefcase. Arriving home, he discovered that the bottle had spilled and spilled all over his belongings, including his grade book. And this student is in front of us... The student is shocked.
The dean became interested: “Tell me,” he turned to Konovalov. — How did you guess that the students had two bottles and not one? “I think that one bottle is not enough to get so drunk that you forget that vodka can spill.” But if one bottle has already been drunk, and the second is, say, half finished, then that’s just enough. For the same reason, it seems to me that the students did not have snacks. - Well, that’s just understandable. Students don't have snacks at all. How did you guess that they went to celebrate the economics exam? - I knew this from the record book itself. We just find the date and name of the last exams. The most recent one is economics, so as you can see, it’s not complicated!
Insight is the daughter of observation and life experience. To become a wizard of interpersonal relationships, insight requires developed attention, active listening, good memory, an analytical mind and critical thinking. She became a skilled master in mental actions: comparison, analysis, juxtaposition, classification, identifying common features, their correlation with behavioral characteristics and emotional reactions typical of certain groups of people.
Insight, as a rule, is associated with the ability to diagnose personality traits, motivations for actions, and emotional reactions of others. The English writer Fanny Burney writes: “Insight helps us to see the stupidity of others, but only experience allows us to see our own stupidity.”
A person with pure consciousness can see the qualities of other people. That is, only a good, honest person can be insightful. You can't see stars in a dirty puddle. For the stars to be reflected, you need a clean lake. A perceptive person clearly sees the virtues and vices of others. In the virtues he recognizes himself, and the vices of another person hurt his eyes and ears, scratch his soul, literally knock him out of the normal course of life. A perceptive person knows how to ask the right questions and immediately senses the falsehood and deception in the words of a rogue. Immanuel Kant also wrote: “The ability to ask the right questions is already an important and necessary sign of intelligence and insight.”
Reflection means the ability to see the personality traits of your counterpart. If a person is a thief and a swindler, he sees thieves and swindlers in everyone around him. He sees only the bad. Good people pass by his business. He doesn't notice them. And if he notices, he sees in them exclusively vicious personality traits and misses out on profitable agreements and contracts. A swindler can conclude a profitable contract, but he will always worry and be nervous about whether he will be cheated or swindled this time.
O.G. Torsunov says: “I had one friend, a bank director. He told me the secret of his success in business : -Do you know how I make my deals? When a person talks to me on the phone about his business proposal, I smell his voice. If he smells bad, if he smells bad, I don't deal with him. This man is very honest. Honesty means the ability to see other people's character traits. Discernment is very important in concluding deals and relationships. When can a person be insightful? When is he himself a very good person?
Insight is the property of a pure soul and mind, expressed in the ability to understand the needs and interests of another person. A person under the control of the energy of ignorance or passion is unable to be insightful. False ego permeates the feelings and mind, blocks the soul and mind. An egoist thinks only of himself. Where can he get the skills to read other people's souls? This requires the energy of goodness with its selflessness, respect, caring and compassion for people.
Insight is purity of consciousness, expressed in clarity of mind and muscularity of mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld wrote: “He who believes that intelligence and insight are different qualities is wrong. Discernment is simply a special clarity of mind, thanks to which it gets to the essence of things, notes everything worthy of attention, and sees what is invisible to others. Thus, everything attributed to insight is only a consequence of extraordinary clarity of mind.
Insight is in demand in all areas of life. The son approaches the insightful father and says: “It is with a heavy heart that I come to you, dad... Father.” - And, probably, with a light wallet?.. Two psychologists meet: - How are you? - Fine! - And I?
Here is an example of a discerning wife. My wife went on a business trip. Two days later, her husband writes her a text message: “Where are all the spoons, knives and forks?” The wife responded: SLEEP AT HOME! He doesn’t understand anything, but waits two more days and again writes a text message: Where are all the spoons, knives and forks?, his wife responds: SLEEP AT HOME! A week later, the wife returns home, her husband meets her angry and asks where she put all the spoons, knives and forks. His wife takes him by the hand, leads him into the bedroom, pulls the covers off the bed, and there are spoons, knives and forks! She: - I told you - SLEEP AT HOME!!!
Petr Kovalev 2014 Other articles by the author: https://www.podskazki.info/karta-statej/
Do you want to become discerning? Become one!
To achieve this goal, it is necessary to outline a basic plan of action that will lead to success.
- Discernment is mindfulness. An astute person is one who is able to work in the search. He does not miss anything that ordinary people would not pay any attention to. For him this is the norm of behavior.
- Systematization of knowledge is the basis for stability of thinking. Our brain can work like a clock only when all the mechanisms in it are working properly. This means that all information must be systematized and structured, only in this way will thoughts be built into logical chains, which will help bring any matter to its logical conclusion.
- Communication with people is an opportunity to gain experience. By carefully studying what the interlocutor said, it is possible to understand the correctness or error of his actions, mentally recreating the basis of actions in a similar situation. During dialogue, it is also important to pay attention to the movements and gestures of the interlocutor. They are the ones who can largely reveal the falsity of the speaker’s words.
But the main thing is that an insightful person is a thinking person, and in order to become insightful, it is important not to make hasty decisions!
Meaning of the word discerning
Examples of the use of the word insightful in literature.
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A cunning, suspicious, insightful psychologist, he is a dangerous opponent for Almaviva, Rosina and Figaro.
A very insightful and experienced observer, Michael Müller-Claudis, who studied anti-Semitism as a phenomenon for many years, conducted his research in 1938 and 1942.
Arago's face was thin, dark, and his gray, penetrating eyes looked out from under his light eyebrows.
Belinsky, Dobrolyubov, Herzen, Chernyshevsky constantly wrote about Bérenger, considered him the greatest French poet, left insightful and deep judgments about various aspects of his work, and defended him from the attacks of bourgeois criticism.
Comparing all this, he came to the conclusion that Burley himself was a victim of his illusions, although, endowed by nature with a strong and insightful mind, he not only hides his superstitious ideas from those in whose eyes they could cast a shadow on his mental abilities, but by an effort of will, which is believed to be available to those suffering from epilepsy, he is able to delay the onset of the next seizure until he remains alone or with people in whose opinion this obsession can only elevate him.
And Burbulis, posing as an insightful psychologist, an intelligent philosopher, did not even realize that at that moment he had pronounced a final verdict on himself.
It will not escape the discerning eye that the one who wants to fall in love falls in love.
A person much less perceptive than Bertram Wooster would have guessed that the aunt was upset.
He looked at me, then at the cow, back at me, and back at the cow again, and even a man less perceptive than Bertie Wooster would have guessed what thoughts were running through his head.
The incident at Big Bittern Lake, the astute investigator reflected, may well turn out to be the kind of case that will attract the attention and sympathy of the population to this man - the current prosecutor, his, Haight's, close and very useful friend.
And then Mr. Hardy began to experience a slow but inevitable rebirth, so insightfully foreseen by Rodin, who directed the whole business, even the smallest details.
Even the perceptive Gervinus did not perceive the difference between Shakespeare's tragedy and the second-rate novella of Giraldi Cintio.
Kasper, blushing under Giese’s penetrating gaze, “isn’t everything lost for me yet?”
Having given a sober and insightful analysis of Forsyteism, expressed in the images of most Forsytes, Galsworthy elevates old Jolyon - an owner in his essence - above them because he also has non-Forsyte qualities: warmth, a sense of humor, the ability to think abstractly and understand Beauty.
Source: Maxim Moshkov library
