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.
Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
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
River Kennax.comThis 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... See more
Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
A nodal point could also be a person, it could be a friend, or a place, or just an idea…
The actionable claim of Focusing (again, according to me) is that this information expresses itself in “felt senses” in the body — think butterflies in the stomach, or your throat closing up, or the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, or a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb, or whatever physiological sensation happens... See more
Duncan A Sabien • “Focusing” for skeptics
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.
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.
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
