intuition vs logic: navigating the gap between what makes sense and what feels right
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intuition vs logic: navigating the gap between what makes sense and what feels right
The inexplicability of the gut is probably why some people talk about it as if it’s mystical. But I think what we experience as a “gut feeling” is simply us at our most honest—proof that some tucked-away part of our brain remembers everything, not just what we want to remember, knows what’s true instead of what we want to be true, and understands w... See more
Haley Nahman • #5: What if you just trusted yourself?
We fundamentally think with our hearts, based on what intuitively feels right. This tendency has been treated as a weakness or a mistake. I hear of people trying to “correct” their cognitive biases and remove all emotion from their decision-making.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Act sometimes on Second Thoughts, sometimes on First Impulse.
Baltasar Gracian • The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC)
Forget woo-woo renaissance or digital fatigue. We're witnessing a recalibration of how humans navigate complexity. After drowning in data and still making spectacularly bad collective decisions, we've rediscovered that intuition deserves more than tokenistic respect.
Zoe Scaman • Primal Intelligence
As such, abductive logic sits squarely between the past-data-driven world of analytical thinking and the knowing-without-reasoning world of intuitive thinking.