In your twenties, going with your gut instinct had you dirty-dancing with your boss, drunk-dialing your ex and cutting your own fringe. Turns out, like a fine wine, your instincts get better with age. Sometimes its easy to act on impulse. Imagine youre crossing the road and a car swerves towards you Youre not going to question the Run! urge, are you? But in everyday life when were trying to make a decision, its all too easy for your gut instinct to be drowned out by dithering.
Instinct is a powerful thing but often we dont trust it – we feel we have to have a sound explanation for out beliefs, so our instinct argue with our sensible side. But that feeling in your bones could be just the tool you need to help you make your mind up. A lot of it is about recognising familiar or comparable situations and your instinct is more reliable as you get older, because its based on more experience so from which dress to wear, to more important choices like whether to buy a house, make your intuition work for you.
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