Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
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Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
- This advice may sound familiar; it lies at the heart of books like Blink and Gary Klein’s The Power of Intuition, which promise to help readers harness their gut feelings. But for executives taught to methodically frame problems, consider alternatives, collect data, weigh the options, and then decide, cultivating emotional self-awareness may seem l... See more
from Decisions and Desire by Gardiner Morse
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- Trusting Your Gut
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”from Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head by Stay SaaSy
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When you force people to make decisions with only the rational part of their brain, they almost invariably end up “overthinking.” These rational decisions tend to take longer to make, says Restak, and can often be of lower quality. In contrast, decisions made with the limbic brain, gut decisions, tend to be faster, higher-quality decisions. This is
... See morefrom Start With Why: The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose by Sinek, Simon
In contrast, decisions made with the limbic brain, gut decisions, tend to be faster, higher-quality decisions. This is one of the primary reasons why teachers tell students to go with their first instinct when taking a multiple-choice test, to trust their gut. The more time spent thinking about the answer, the bigger the risk that it may be the wro
... See morefrom Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
“gut feelings” are more reliable in many situations than the fruits of conscious reasoning.1 But our gut can deceive us as well,
from Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
- “Gut reactions are usually very wrong or very right.
They tend to be wrong when they are based purely on emotion and in domains where you lack experience. They tend to be right when they are rooted in deep understanding and well-developed taste.
Trust your gut when you have the experience to back it up.”from 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (October 10, 2019) | James Clear by James Clear
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This idea introduces our third decision mistake, inappropriately relying on intuition. Intuition can play a clear and positive role in decision making. The goal is to recognize when your intuition will serve you well versus when it will lead you astray.
from Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael J. Mauboussin
- One of my contrarian views is that I’m a big defender of gut-based decision making. Not in an “always trust your gut” kind of way, but I don’t think listening to your intuition means you’re “ignoring the data.” You’re just using data that can’t be articulated. It’s hard to get intuitive, experiential out of your head and into someone else’s. You sh... See more
from On Validating Product Ideas by Coleman McCormick
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