Gut feel over logical reasoning
(Have not been active here, and do most of my posting on twitter Today I wanted to write something, which is tough to fit into 140 characters, so here I am.)
When making an important decision, I think it is better to go with gut-feel than with logical reasoning, especially when the choice is a close call.
If you go by logical reasoning, there is ( Read more... )
When making an important decision, I think it is better to go with gut-feel than with logical reasoning, especially when the choice is a close call.
If you go by logical reasoning, there is ( Read more... )
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When you go by logic, you give a lot of weightage to the environmental parameters... you want something but you have analysed it mostly from the environment perspective.. your goal is there but it has lesser weightage than the environment.. when you go with your gut feeling, the environment becomes secondary.. you do analyse the environment but you know that the goal is the target...
To summarize, When environment changes, logic/goals/target based on environment falls apart quickly.. when you go with your gut, env is just another issue to be tackled..
I am not sure everyone feels this way.. but, it was an aha moment based on personal research.. what do you think??
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And what you refer to as Environment - changes a lot, and is completely out of your control.
> when you go with your gut, env is just another issue to be tackled..
Exactly what I mean by : if you go by your gut-feel, in a lot of ways you are taking ownership of the decision and it becomes a part of you ... you will make most *such* decisions work well
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Once this realisation sinks in, logic comes to the same level as gut.. people who feel this way, know how to keep changing gut and logic and make the whole thing dynamic which means that logic takes a much central role over gut? :)
another thing is that the whole goal/target might be based on a bigger environment which can also change premise/logic.. the environment of the target and the environment of target settings are different..
etc...
sorry if I am sounding too abstract/philosophical..
thungas
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We usually like to think we're being completely objective - but look carefully and there are so many assumptions + interpretations made over the raw numbers and in the equations (yeah, even Newton made them) that being completely logical is unlikely.
As someone pointed out, the gut does factor in even that which you cannot quantify right away, but its usually your sense of whatever you're trying to read off the numbers anyhow thats important for the decision and not the number itself. So if you have that sense, perhaps the number or explicit logic not being part of the decision is - well - ok.
You gotta start someplace, after all.
The terrible mistake would be to let either a gut-feel or the "logical reason" blind you to evidence to the contrary.
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Rgds,
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