Intuition
The purely intuitive-me ignored the fact that my gut is not some pristine oracle whispering eternal truths. It's been shaped by every fear, every trauma, every half-remembered lesson from childhood. Sometimes what feels like wisdom is just anxiety wearing a very convincing disguise.
intuition vs logic: navigating the gap between what makes sense and what feels right
Trusting yourself looks like finding the courage to override the constant temptations to minimize the small but meaningful steps you’re taking to honor your intuition. Trusting yourself looks like depersonalizing setbacks. Trusting yourself looks like realizing that just because the thing you felt so certain about changed, that doesn’t mean you
... See moreKatherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
the people whose intuition seems most reliable aren't the ones who've abandoned thinking entirely. They're the ones who've done so much thinking, so much observing, so much pattern recognition that their conscious mind has taught their unconscious what to look for.
intuition vs logic: navigating the gap between what makes sense and what feels right
Trust yourself. It’s Sugar’s golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
but we often forget about the importance of self-trust. Self-trust is normally the first casualty of failure or mistakes. We stop trusting ourselves when we hurt others, get hurt, feel shame, or question our worth.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Maybe this is what wisdom looks like... not the triumph of heart over mind or mind over heart, but the slow development of discernment . The ability to hold multiple sources of information—logical, emotional, somatic, intuitive—and let them inform each other.