Do you feel that you have good instincts?
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August 17th, 2016
Do you feel that you have good instincts? Have you had suspicions about people and then found out later that you were correct? Have you suspected something was amiss and then found out later you were correct?
I am referring to things like suspecting someone is not telling the truth, suspecting someone is hiding something, having a feeling about something and then finding out later you were right.
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Nope. Actually throughout my life I’ve been hellaciously wrong about a lot of people, to the point where I have feelings of guilt toward their victims.
Now, for my own safety and that of those I care about, I distrust all people on principal until they demonstrate trustworthiness on their own.
I know when I’m being lied to and I know when there’s something wrong inside my body, but those are really the only things I trust my instincts on. I try to seek out evidence for most things rather than going blindly on my gut.
I have come to realize that I have underestimated my instinct. When I’m with a suspicious person, no matter how subtle their bullshit is, I feel uneasy. I can’t explain, I just feel it. It’s like my gut is saying: “Look, I don’t know if this person is being honest or not, but just don’t buy them for me, OK?” But despite that I just try to deny my feeling, saying to myself that I’m just being paranoid. It happens especially when the person is someone I’ve been around for quite some time. And later, my gut is right many times. It has got to the point that I need to reconsider my instinct and dig more into people.
I have pretty good powers of observation, analysis and calculation, so I often do have a good “first sense” of things in a snap judgment. But then I give in to the “trust your gut” school of thought (or feeling), which is often at odds with (and lags) my colder calculation. So I manage to talk myself out of good (or bad) first impressions with “reasons why I might have been too hasty”, and for that reason sometimes make bad decisions which cannot be well defended in hindsight.
So I would have to say that I really don’t have good “instincts”, even though I do have good first takes that can be backed up with limited observation and reasonable calculation and prediction.
I guess my answer would be “I don’t know”.
I don’t trust my instincts or gut-feelings much at all. So I don’t trust 100% anything I see, read, hear, read and especially anything thatt other people tell me. It’s all BS until proven otherwise.
Used to but not so much anymore. Decision-making once seemed easier—too many variables now.
“It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince then they have been fooled.” -Mark Twain
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