Visionary

Sensitivity, particularly sensitivity to environmental stimuli. Studies suggest circa 30% of people are highly sensitive (applies to animals too), the other 70% are resistant to changing behaviour as circumstances change. This paper is fascinating: 2/ https://t.co/v7tiDDAg2U

If you have sentinel intelligence, your brain can aggregate and sift through extraordinary amounts of information in a very short period of time, especially when it comes to seeing latent or hidden dangers. You don’t get stymied by what Clarke and Eddy call the “magnitude of overload.”

Not only does Cassandra predict the Trojan war, but she also warns everyone about the Trojan Horse. Once again, nobody listens. They start calling her names. She tries to smash the horse open with an axe and gets dragged away screaming.

Sentinel intelligence refers to a special cognitive ability that allows someone to detect threats before anyone else.

we were able to identify a highly sensitive (orchids, 31%) and a low-sensitive group (dandelions, 29%), we also detected a third group (40%) characterised by medium sensitivity, which we refer to as tulips in keeping with the flower metaphor.