Once you learn how to get still with yourself, then you can begin to ask intuitive questions. Because in that stillness is where you get the answers. So, it involves learning to tune out the mind so you can hear your intuition. Yes, intuition is very different than the mind. Intuition is not that way.
Intuition involves putting out a request and listening for an answer.
I really want to find my purpose. So I put that question out, and then I must wait and listen. And as people get used to listening to the impressions, images that might come, or feelings or memories, then you could kind of weave them together in a braid to find your solution. There are two clues that can really help. I have found that reliable intuitive information either comes through as simple information without any emotional charge to it, or else it comes through with a compassionate tone.