{"id":45836,"date":"2021-08-16T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=45836"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:05:28","slug":"trusting-your-gut-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/trusting-your-gut-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting Your Gut Feeling: Helpful or Irrational?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it a good idea to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/follow-your-intuition\/\">trust your gut<\/a> feeling? Is making decisions based on a &#8220;feeling&#8221; irrational? Can your gut feeling lead you wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Bren\u00e9 Brown and Malcolm Gladwell seem to think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/should-you-trust-your-intuition\/\">trusting your gut<\/a> feeling is a powerful process and allows us to make quick and intuitive decisions. However, Gladwell does point out some flaws with this type of snap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn what Bren\u00e9 Brown and  Malcolm Gladwell have to say about trusting your gut feeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trusting Your Gut<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Using your intuition and trusting your gut feeling may seem like a straightforward process. After all, you\u2019re probably already doing it unconsciously and automatically. <strong>However, as <strong>Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/strong> notes, many of us struggle to use intuition successfully.<\/strong> She argues that often, this is because we\u2019re wary of accepting our gut feelings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to Brown, this wariness comes from a combination of a lack of trust in our own judgment and the brain\u2019s overwhelming need for certainty. <\/strong>Because we don\u2019t trust ourselves to intuitively make the \u201ccorrect\u201d decision, we don\u2019t feel certain that our gut feeling is right. Instinctively, humans hate uncertainty\u2014and that hatred makes us reject the \u201cuncertain\u201d gut feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we learn to overcome our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/fear-of-uncertainty\/\">fear of uncertainty<\/a> (and, consequently, become comfortable with following our intuition)? Brown suggests <strong>embracing<\/strong> <strong>faith.<\/strong> She doesn\u2019t necessarily mean embracing <em>religious <\/em>faith; more, embracing the belief that things <em>will work out<\/em>, even if you can\u2019t be <em>certain <\/em>that they will. Faith requires you to bravely let go of your fear of uncertainty and decide that even though you can\u2019t be sure what\u2019s ahead, you\u2019re going to move forward and act anyway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Brown doesn\u2019t explore in detail the link between embracing faith and embracing intuition. One theory is that having faith helps you to use intuition because <strong>you become willing to act on your gut feeling, despite the risk that it\u2019s wrong, because you have faith that it might be right.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Should We <em>Always <\/em>Follow Our Intuition?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Is intuition <em>always<\/em> a useful process, and should we <em>always<\/em> have faith in our gut feelings? Perhaps not: As Malcolm Gladwell notes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/blink\"><em>Blink<\/em><\/a>, <strong>the process of intuiting isn\u2019t perfect, and it may not always lead to \u201ccorrect\u201d judgments.<\/strong><br>(Note that Gladwell refers to intuition as \u201cunconscious thinking,\u201d a term we\u2019ll also use when discussing his work. Brown\u2019s definition of intuition fits neatly with Gladwell\u2019s concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/intuitive-thinking-2\/\">unconscious thinking<\/a>: Both authors view this type of thinking as a powerful process that can lead us to make good decisions quickly, without realizing we\u2019re doing it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Gladwell explains, sometimes, if we\u2019re under stress, pressed for time, or have strong biases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/blink\/chapter-3\">our unconscious thinking can malfunction.<\/a> <strong>The brain may make a faulty snap judgment that\u2019s based on irrelevant, incorrect, or superficial information,<\/strong> rather than on the full breadth of the information available to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, imagine a person has an ingrained unconscious bias that female medical professionals are usually nurses, not doctors (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/female-physicians-often-assumed-be-nurses-patient-survey-finds\">a bias that exists<\/a>, according to some research). If this person seeks treatment at a health facility and is greeted by a female clinician, their bias may overwhelm their unconscious thinking, leading them to intuitively believe that the clinician is a nurse, not a doctor, and greet them as such. If their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-unconscious-mind\/\">unconscious mind<\/a> had looked deeper at the situation, it may have noticed that the clinician wore a name tag identifying her as a doctor. <strong>However, overwhelmed by bias, it failed to do so, leading to the faulty snap judgment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This flaw of intuition doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that we should have <em>no<\/em> faith in it, however: Our intuition does frequently get it right. Furthermore, as Gladwell notes, <strong>there are steps you can take to reduce the likelihood of unconscious thinking going wrong.<\/strong> One approach he suggests is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/blink\/chapter-3\">try to overcome the unconscious biases that sway your intuition in the wrong direction.<\/a> You can do this by repeatedly exposing yourself to people or situations that challenge that bias. For instance, the person in the example above might try to always see female doctors rather than male ones. This will help their brain grow accustomed to the idea that women can be doctors as well as nurses, thus reducing their bias.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a good idea to trust your gut feeling? Is making decisions based on a &#8220;feeling&#8221; irrational? Can your gut feeling lead you wrong? 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