Look at something long enough, and you begin to intuit the patterns instinctively.

Instincts are not limited to natural instincts.

> 1. A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

> 2. An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.

I’m reminded of something that I heard someone say once in an interview—intuition is just memory in disguise. Certainly, in some areas of my life, my strategy is to learn things and forget them to be able to use them. It doesn’t work in all arenas (mathematics really demands explicit remembering much of the time, but I find programming and writing both work well with forgotten remembering).

It seems I was mixing up instinctive and intuitive.