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Once you’ve determined where you are on the confidence spectrum, then analyze yourself for your level of intuition. Do you generally know what other people are thinking, or do they regularly surprise you? Do you easily read other people’s moods, or do you have trouble doing so? Do you notice a difference in the ease with which you read people in your intimate circles—family, close friends, coworkers you’ve known well for a long time—and people you know less well?

It’s normal for us to be able to read people we know intimately, but not less close acquaintances. If even those in your closest circles of family, friends, and coworkers are often a mystery to you, then you have below-average intuition.

Men tend to be less intuitive than women, but on the whole most of us are not very intuitive, especially with people we haven’t known very long. That gives those who are an edge over the rest; one of the purposes of this book is to show you how to increase the strength and precision of your intuition. I’ll cover that in more detail in chapter 3.