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Recently I encountered an interesting person. I knew him but we sat together and had drinks, chats only a few days ago. He showed me a write-up about sensory people and intuitive people. He thought of himself as the later one and mine as former one. What he said was that he can not indulge in social activities. That he thinks and talks intuitively, it is his nature (very true, realized after a few hours spent with him), he likes philosophical discussions very much, he quickly jumps into abstract of everything and that he told what intuitive people do (not true about the social activities part). I am a person who explores very much, is interested in almost everything and finds it difficult to get conversation started with somebody but once started, it goes on very smoothly.
When we were talking, we had long discussions about theories, reality, human behavior, my independence (thoroughly questioned by them), computation, how mathematics is a natural language and most easy to understand (never thought of mathematics in those terms before). I definitely enjoyed those conversations being an explorer and i thought well, this is something. Why didn't i think in these terms before. But I am starting to realize that more I let myself go in that, more I will be screwing my normal social life. I think if I had the same talks with a different person, I would not have been thinking that. May be It was the nature of that person that I am feeling this way.
How can I manage it? What should I do? I think, I am neither sensory type nor intuitive type then what am I? I am always having difficulty finding new topics for conversation, not like aur kya kya kiya kal (fed up of all these). What can I do?

I think your friend is right in his perspective. Though intuition is an inbuilt trait, it can be developed up to a great extent by training the mind, to be acutely focused. in my book, MPMA, I have narrated a real incident, how I traced and met my childhood friend after three decades through the act of intuition. And I am sure every human, including you, experience such inner calls, though most of the people ignore them. Those who are wired internally, sensitive to that feeble voice and follow them blindly, are branded intuitive. That doesn't mean others are not subjected to hunches. It's too complex a topic to discuss over this forum, but believe me, it's a reality. Probably you are not able to recognize your own inner calls, that's it.