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
Learning when to trust your intuition and when to question it is a big part of how you improve your competence in the world at large and in any field where you want to be expert.
“When combined with the situational facts your brain processes,” I continued, “your intuition allows you to ask more perceptive questions. Triangulate between the rep, your mind and your gut. Triangulate to the right conclusion.”
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.