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Intuition Under Pressure
Sharpen your instincts for high-stakes moments. Learn to distinguish anxiety from intuition, make clear decisions under stress, and trust yourself when it matters most.
4
Modules
12
Lessons
$97
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Welcome to Intuition Under Pressure
When the stakes are high and time is short, your intuition becomes either your greatest asset or your most dangerous liability. The difference lies not in the intuition itself, but in how well you have trained yourself to use it. Intuition Under Pressure is a course about performing at your best when it matters most — learning to stay connected to your instincts, make clear decisions under stress, and recover gracefully when things do not go as planned.
When the stakes are high, your intuition becomes either your greatest asset or your most dangerous liability. The difference lies in how well you have trained yourself to use it.
What You Will Learn
Across four modules, you will begin by understanding how pressure and stress physically alter your cognitive processes — and why some intuitive signals become more reliable under stress while others become less so. Then you will engage in mental training techniques drawn from fields where split-second intuitive judgment is a matter of life and death: emergency medicine, military decision-making, and elite athletics. You will develop a personal practice for performing under pressure, including techniques for the decisive moment itself, for recovering from mistakes, and for building long-term resilience. Finally, you will explore the deeper dimensions of pressure — chronic stress, compassion fatigue, and how intuition under pressure manifests across diverse real-world contexts — to build a comprehensive and sustainable practice.
The principles here are drawn from emergency medicine, military decision-making, and elite athletics — fields where split-second intuitive judgment is a matter of life and death.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for anyone who faces consequential decisions — whether that means leading a team through a crisis, navigating a high-stakes negotiation, performing in competition, or simply wanting to show up as their best self in the moments that matter. If you have ever wished you could think more clearly under pressure, this course will show you how.
Curriculum
What you'll learn
4 modules · 12 lessons. Work through at your own pace.
- 1How Stress Reshapes Thinking
- 2Anxiety vs. Intuition
- 3The Clarity Window
- 1Simulation and Rehearsal
- 2Stress Inoculation for the Mind
- 3Learning from Crisis Experts
- 1The Decisive Moment
- 2Recovering from Bad Calls
- 3Building Pressure Resilience
- 1The Long Burn
- 2Compassion Fatigue and the Caring Professions
- 3Pressure Across Contexts
Recommended reading
Free articles that complement this course
The Practice
Anxiety or Intuition? How to Tell the Difference When It Matters Most
That knot in your stomach could be a genuine warning or just your nervous system misfiring. Here's a practical framework for distinguishing real intuitive signals from anxiety noise.
8 min read
decisions
Clear Under Fire: How to Make Good Decisions When the Pressure Is On
High-stakes moments compress time and amplify emotion. The people who make good calls under pressure aren't immune to stress — they've trained a specific set of cognitive and somatic skills.
8 min read
What students are saying
From practitioners who've taken this course
As an ER nurse, I rely on split-second judgment every shift. The lesson on the clarity window gave me a name for something I had been doing instinctively for years, and now I can teach it to newer nurses on my team. The stress inoculation framework has also changed how I prepare for high-acuity shifts.
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Kim W.
Emergency Nurse
I used to freeze in high-pressure situations, especially during investor pitches and critical product decisions. The anxiety versus intuition distinction was a breakthrough for me. I now have a reliable framework for staying connected to my instincts when the stakes are highest, and the after-action review process has become part of my weekly leadership practice.
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Marcus J.
Startup Founder
I have competed at the national level for over a decade, and I thought I understood pressure. This course showed me how much I was leaving on the table. The simulation and rehearsal techniques, especially the branching what-if method, transformed my pre-competition mental preparation and helped me recover faster from bad performances.
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Elena R.
Competitive Fencer
Common questions
Not at all. Pressure shows up in job interviews, difficult conversations, parenting moments, and creative deadlines. The principles taught in this course, from understanding the Yerkes-Dodson curve to building a personal stress inoculation practice, apply to any situation where you need to think clearly and act well under stress. Many students report that the skills they develop here improve their everyday decision-making as much as their performance in acute high-stakes moments.
This course teaches you to distinguish between anxiety and genuine intuitive signals, a skill many people find profoundly helpful for reducing unnecessary worry and increasing confidence in their own judgment. The body scan techniques and signal journaling exercises give you practical tools for understanding your internal responses. However, the course is not a substitute for professional mental health support, and we encourage anyone dealing with clinical anxiety to work with a qualified therapist alongside this material.
Yes. Performance anxiety is one of the most common ways that pressure disrupts intuitive thinking, and several lessons address it directly. The stress inoculation framework teaches you to progressively raise the threshold at which performance pressure overwhelms your cognition, and the decisive moment lesson provides specific techniques for moving through hesitation when the stakes feel high. Many students, from public speakers to athletes to performing artists, have found these tools directly applicable to their performance contexts.
Absolutely. The course draws extensively on research and practices from emergency medicine, military decision-making, wildland firefighting, aviation, and elite athletics. The recognition-primed decision-making model taught in the crisis experts lesson, for example, comes directly from psychologist Gary Klein's research with firefighters and military commanders. Every principle in the course is grounded in how professionals who face life-and-death decisions actually think, train, and perform.
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