N = iNtuitive

Intuition. The term associated with drawing together an impression about circumstances or practices has often been used dismissively in reference to a woman's gut instinct, but when describing a user interface or operator instructions, "intuitive" is ideal. If a program or system is "counter-intuitive," it is difficult to follow and goes against common practices.

So how does intuition affect an intuitive person's perspective on life? It is the fact gathering, connection building, future-looking, possibility thinking function. Intuition, in my own experience, is rarely linear. Point A to point B is all well and good, but the intuitive mind can make leaps to point M and C along the way, bouncing from one point to another like a pinball in a pinball machine, and pulling them into the inter-connectivity of the experience. Cause and effect for an intuitive has multiple variables. Everything is connected, just in varying degrees.
Intuition affects how the intuitive sees patterns, both in a literal and figurative sense.

To an intuitive these connections are like looking into the night sky in a foreign location and seeing the stars in the expanse above for the first time and instantly finding personal constellations by connecting the dots instantaneously in his or her mind. Or finding a dragon in a cumulus cloud. Or hearing a symphony of sound in the traffic of a city. Or recognizing the political trending of a country's population well before the talking heads begin to squawk about war or famine or a burgeoning economy. Or reading about one topic in a paper and immediately and unconsciously associating it with a news story heard the week before on the radio. Or uncannily understanding the motivating factors in human interactions.

In short, intuitives see the big picture. They can't help it. Those little neural pathways won't stop growing.