kaylan Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) First, what exactly is your "gut" feeling? For me, its a summation of your intuition, rational reasoning, and a bit of your emotions. Not too much emotion though, because we know emotions can lead us blindly into situations at times. I guess we could say our gut feeling is logical, common sense. But is a gut feeling sometimes just insecurity? And how reliable is our gut feeling? My gut seems to be right a majority of the time, but not always. However, this could easily be confirmation bias. Its quite possible that I conveniently remember more cases of my gut being right than wrong. Im debating over whether to contact someone, and I dont know if I should listen to my gut or not. Edited March 8, 2012 by kaylan 1
xpaperxcutx Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Well my gut often tells me to stop being a wuss. Maybe yours is too! 2
ThaWholigan Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 First, what exactly is your "gut" feeling? For me, its a summation of your intuition, rational reasoning, and a bit of your emotions. Not too much emotion though, because we know emotions can lead us blindly into situations at times. I guess we could say our gut feeling is logical, common sense. But is a gut feeling sometimes just insecurity? And how reliable is our gut feeling? My gut seems to be right a majority of the time, but not always. However, this could easily be confirmation bias. Its quite possible that I conveniently remember more cases of my gut being right than wrong. Im debating over whether to contact someone, and I dont know if I should listen to my gut or not. Depends on what you would call your "gut feeling". Sometimes your gut feeling is just an extension of what your brain is telling you. One of the things I do is simply to ignore everything and listen to the complete silence within me and I usually find it easier to make a decision. Sometimes I find my clarity while composing. Find your clarity
Star Gazer Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 My gut that something was wrong has always been right, but I wasn't necessarily right about the particular wrong. For example, I once had a bad gut feeling that something was wrong with my then-BF, like he'd been in a car accident or something. The gut feeling was intense. In reality, he was moving out of our apartment and breaking up with me. On the other had, my gut instinct that something was right has been wrong half of the time. So, I tend to not trust it.
Author kaylan Posted March 8, 2012 Author Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) Well my gut often tells me to stop being a wuss. Maybe yours is too! Actually its telling me to stop being stubborn. Not sure if I wanna listen though =p Depends on what you would call your "gut feeling". Sometimes your gut feeling is just an extension of what your brain is telling you. One of the things I do is simply to ignore everything and listen to the complete silence within me and I usually find it easier to make a decision. Sometimes I find my clarity while composing. Find your clarity I usually think in silence as well when I search for a gut feeling. Im still not sure if its right or not doing it that way though. It can be hard to differentiate between my gut and my own stubbornness sometimes lol If only magic 8 balls truly told the future, then things would be much easier lol. Edited March 8, 2012 by kaylan
FrustratedStandards Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Always, always follow your gut. Always. It's never wrong. I promise.
JohnP82 Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 My gut has always been right when it comes to women and relationships. Unfortunately that has meant quite a bit of heartbreak wih some good times sprinkled in between.
FrustratedStandards Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Your gut tells you all men are pussies. That's not my gut. That's what I see.
SJC2008 Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 That's not my gut. That's what I see. Not to say that women have their place but a woman who has more balls than a man is easy to spot, she's the one who never gets hit on.
Eternal Sunshine Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 My gut was telling me that something was off in my last R. It was screaming at me and I did my best to ignore it and find logical reasons on why I should stay with the guy. I did this for months and thus had the worst feeling of inner conflict/anxiety. Many things are coming to light post-break-up so my gut was spot on.
Real36 Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 My gut feelings, or intuition, are reactions to a situation or event. Sort of like a red flag popping up or an alarm going off. It's like my subconscious is saying "whoa!!! Hold on a second, something ain't right here" while waiting for logic and reason to kick in. I say trust your gut. I
threebyfate Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Hasn't been wrong yet so I trust it even beyond logic, which is my normal modus operandi.
smokey bear Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Always trust your gut instinct. I googled it about a year ago and came up with lots of research. Your gut instinct is actually there to protect you, its in your subconsious. What happens is something happens in your life and your gut feeling kicks in, its because your sub con remembers a familiar event or action and its consequences Its like a mini memory and warning system hid deep within you that remembers stuff you have long forgotton. Something happens and it triggers those memories deep down and your body lets off its warning system, that icky gut feeling. You say to yourself, hold on something isnt right here, its correct, you've been here before and the end rsult was not pleasant. Always trust your gut 1
oaks Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 With hindsight, my gut feeling always seems to be spot-on. 1
sid3 Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Mine has been extremely accurate. I'm not sure exactly why, but its been flawless in gauging interest.
zengirl Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 The problem is knowing what your "gut" is. In hindsight, most people consider their "gut" to be the part of them that was right when they had dissonance (felt two different ways about a situation), which is where people get the idea to trust their "gut." Well, that's all well and good, but it doesn't help you next time, because you're in the same damn situation, feeling multiple ways. I have good instincts, generally. I spend a lot of time weighing out what part of me feels what. If I isolate my feelings from hope or fear, I can usually come up with a good "gut" instinct, but I think it's pretty stupid to look at such things in hindsight. To actually judge it, you need to log it as you make decisions. I think most people operate more from either hope or fear than anything else. 4
denise_xo Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 I find that my gut feeling is usually right. It's how I act on that feeling that's the complicating variable. I've often made the mistake of questioning it when I shouldn't have.
oaks Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 The problem is knowing what your "gut" is. In hindsight, most people consider their "gut" to be the part of them that was right when they had dissonance (felt two different ways about a situation), which is where people get the idea to trust their "gut." Well, that's all well and good, but it doesn't help you next time, because you're in the same damn situation, feeling multiple ways. Spot on.
LnliHrt Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Oaks, your earl gray is getting cold, because all of that milk...
Saxis Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 On the other had, my gut instinct that something was right has been wrong half of the time. So, I tend to not trust it. I'm kinda like this. When I get the feeling something is wrong, it almost always is. But when everything seems right, I often second guess myself and assume something is wrong anyways. Otherwise, I'm usually very logical and often indecisive, like I'm waiting for a gut feeling to guide me. It just doesn't work that way most of the time though.
dasein Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Used to think my gut was always right, but then read a book called "The Invisible Gorilla," which I highly recommend.
threebyfate Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 The problem is knowing what your "gut" is. In hindsight, most people consider their "gut" to be the part of them that was right when they had dissonance (felt two different ways about a situation), which is where people get the idea to trust their "gut." Well, that's all well and good, but it doesn't help you next time, because you're in the same damn situation, feeling multiple ways.That's just it. If you're feeling dissonance, there's a reason for it. It's a warning so instead of moving forward and investing further, watch, look and listen. The reason for the warning always becomes apparent with time.
zengirl Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 That's just it. If you're feeling dissonance, there's a reason for it. It's a warning so instead of moving forward and investing further, watch, look and listen. The reason for the warning always becomes apparent with time. Well, that is true that there's always a reason. But I don't think it's always in the situation you feel dissonance in. (Sometimes it is, of course.) I have personally found that SOME of my dissonance comes from inside me --- from my past, from my fears, from my anxieties. Maybe others don't ALL have this experience, but I think many do; people can be self-destructive creatures, and dissonance is a symptom of that in many cases. I do think it's good to watch, look, and listen, but inside as well as outside.
Meaplus3 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 I must have been blessed with a good old gut.. cause it always seems to stear me in the right direction. I say.. the GUT knows! Mea:)
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