The next time you're standing at the edge of a decision—ingredients laid out, analysis complete, but something inside you hesitates—try this: Don't rush to pick a side. Instead, get curious about the gap between what makes logical sense and what feels right.

Maybe this is what wisdom looks like... not the triumph of heart over mind or mind over heart, but the slow development of discernment . The ability to hold multiple sources of information—logical, emotional, somatic, intuitive—and let them inform each other.

The purely intuitive-me ignored the fact that my gut is not some pristine oracle whispering eternal truths. It's been shaped by every fear, every trauma, every half-remembered lesson from childhood. Sometimes what feels like wisdom is just anxiety wearing a very convincing disguise.

The purely intuitive-me ignored the fact that my gut is not some pristine oracle whispering eternal truths. It's been shaped by every fear, every trauma, every half-remembered lesson from childhood. Sometimes what feels like wisdom is just anxiety wearing a very convincing disguise.

the people whose intuition seems most reliable aren't the ones who've abandoned thinking entirely. They're the ones who've done so much thinking, so much observing, so much pattern recognition that their conscious mind has taught their unconscious what to look for.