trust your gut, intuition

Truth is the thing that keeps you up at night and the thing you’re afraid to tell your loved ones. Speaking truth sets you free. The body is the location of truth. If you’ve clarified your desire you can discern truth because your body loves it. If you haven’t it’s hard to see.

go deep enough w trusting your gut & heart, they’ll tell you when it’s time to use your intellect go far enough w trusting your intellect, it’ll tell you it only works at peak capacity when you deepen into your gut & heart the worst option is to not go far enough with either

It's all a judgment call. Every human decision is a gut decision. The decision itself is the messy integration of many disparate pieces of information, experiences, instincts, stories, and unknowns.

Data may inform, but as long as a human is making the decision, it's ultimately a judgment call. If you're just going by the data, then you're confirmin

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People have always lived in their own realities. A person’s intuition helps them decide what to pay attention to, how to perceive the world, and what to value.

the sum total of all of a person’s nodal points could be some kind of proxy for a personal identity. At the very least, it’s an indication of an individual perspective. Since writing this essay, I’ve thought a lot about this kind of personal intuition towards things: the radar that any person has that leads them to different points in their life.

This got me thinking that, ultimately, it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one's own unique perspective. It doesn't matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneous... See more

I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.

Sama: "I think I mostly got what I wanted by ignoring advice..."