trust your gut, intuition
Stuart Evans and
trust your gut, intuition
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.
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If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll confuse
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Stuart Evans and
... See moreIt'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
So before you build your second brain, build a relationship with your gut. Trust your felt-senses to guide you in discerning what is worth capturing. Get inexplicably emotional when you sit down to create. Feel your gut-feelings. Only then will you be able to create something truly valuable.
Daniel Kazandjian • Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
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.
Daniel Thorsonx.comIntuitive freedom is allowing yourself to move with your emotions rather than against them. And emotional resonance can come from very unexpected places if you allow your internal compass to guide you. Maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to fight the feeling all the time.
Nix • gut feelings
the most fruitful exercise seems to be when you’re able to rest your awareness in your torso (especially the gut and the heart) and simply stay there. Be with the gut. Be with the heart. Allow whatever wants to happen to happen.