Highly Successful People Have Pattern Recognition Intelligence

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Thomas Oppong
4 min readJul 16, 2022

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation and thought, ‘How did I miss that?’ Maybe you didn’t catch on fast enough to escape a tricky situation.

Or maybe you failed to recognise an opportunity when it was staring you in the face. Whatever the case, it can be incredibly frustrating.

In fact, not recognising what should have been obvious is one of the most common mistakes that we all make at one time or another. Sometimes it comes at a cost.

“True wisdom is acquired by the person who sees patterns and comes to understand those patterns in their connection to other patterns — and from these interconnected patterns, learns the code of life,” says Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

Pattern recognition Intelligence (PRI) is the ability to identify, understand, recognise, and leverage rare patterns to make successful and productive choices. Or the ability to see, understand and remember patterns that often go unnoticed in the everyday world.

It also refers to a person’s ability to recognise when they are encountering a new situation or dealing with a familiar one differently than they previously have.

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Thomas Oppong

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