trust your gut, intuition
Stuart Evans and
trust your gut, intuition
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
The numbness I felt was the result of continuously choosing to ride the gondola in the direction of someone else’s definition of success, moving further and further from my own intuition of a life well lived. When we feel internal turmoil, it’s a signal from our body to rethink our assumptions. While it’s natural to turn to everyone else — anyone... See more
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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.com... 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
If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
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.