WHEN FEELING RIGHT IS RIGHT

Duda Owner IONOS • November 9, 2015

Making important decisions can involve lots of research, data analysis, consultations, foresight, and multiple additional factors. We want our decisions to be timely and smart. How we arrive there is the subject of much debate.

One significant aspect to the process is your intuition. Your human intuition tends to grow in quality and capacity over the course of your life. It is based on your experience in combination with your raw intelligence. You should find that you can trust your intuition with increasing reliability.

Although your intuition can sometimes be wrong in a particular situation, you likely will find that it tends to be correct. Definitely remember to do your homework and gather all the normal data for every decision. However, learn to trust your proven intuition too. Debra Lee summarizes this well (“How Did I Get Here?: Debra Lee” Bloomberg Businessweek , 11/2/15–11/8/15, p. 76):

“ I like a lot of data, but the best decisions I’ve made are from my gut. ”

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