Listen to your intuition — it can help you navigate the future | Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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"Intuition helps us see the big picture," says filmmaker and sustainability leader Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir. Reflecting on her work at the UN, she outlines three ways innsæi (the Icelandic word for "intuition") can help humanity face our greatest existential threats — urging us to use our inner wisdom as a guide for essential change.
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| 0:09.3 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm your host, Elise Hu. |
| 0:16.8 | Intuition. |
| 0:17.9 | Today's speaker says it's something we all have, yet it isn't getting the attention |
| 0:21.8 | it deserves, both individually and as a society. In her 2024 talk, Sustainability Leader |
| 0:28.3 | Frunt Goenstein-Dosteer looks deeper at intuition and its power to help us connect with one |
| 0:34.5 | another to navigate an uncertain future. Coming up after a break. |
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| 1:31.0 | Day. You all know that feeling, that sense of overwhelm, when confronted with an urgent task, |
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