Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
George Sudarkoffsudarkoff.com
Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
take a moment and consider the simple yet meaningful advice to trust your internal guidance more and more at work.
What may be counterintuitive is that self-insight rarely comes from staying in our heads. Research suggests that reflecting or ruminating on our thoughts and feelings is an ineffective way to achieve true understanding.4 Studying our own behavior is more fruitful.
The key is learning to distinguish between these genuine intuitive leaps and emotional reactions based on past conditioning or current fears.
If you're struggling with a decision, stop thinking about it. Instead, focus on cultivating an open heart. The answer you want to follow isn't in your mind.