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... See more

We weren’t born this way. There was a time we knew what we knew. This was in the old days, before we read or heard the opinions or hot takes of five different people or Googled the answer to the question before deciding on something. I knew what I wanted before it was advertised to me in six different colourways. Back then, I could imagine, for the... See more