When a decision feels wrong despite looking perfect on paper, that 'tiny inkling in your gut' isn't just a fleeting feeling. For believers, it can be interpreted as the Holy Spirit providing crucial guidance. Learning to trust this internal nudge over external validation leads to better long-term outcomes.

Many professionals continue down paths they dislike simply because they excel and receive external validation. This pattern of ignoring personal dissatisfaction for the sake of praise is a form of self-betrayal that systematically trains you to ignore your own inner guidance.

The "moral dumbfounding" phenomenon reveals we often have an instant, gut-level decision and *then* invent reasons to justify it. We believe we're reasoning our way to a conclusion, but we're often just rationalizing an intuition we already hold.

Prioritize your intuition over pure logic in decision-making, treating your gut as your "primary brain." Following it and failing is better than ignoring it for someone else's logic and failing, as the latter creates profound self-doubt and regret.

From a young age, we suppress our authentic selves (intuition) to maintain connection with caregivers. This creates a lifelong pattern of seeking external validation over internal knowing, leading us to distrust our gut feelings.

Your intuition is the deep inner voice telling you something is wrong. Your instincts, however, are often flawed survival reactions that can make things worse. Instinct might tell you to 'try harder' when feeling rejected, which is as counterproductive as a riptide victim's instinct to swim directly to shore.

The process of following your intuition is more important than the outcome. It eliminates the anxiety from going against your gut, making even 'wrong' decisions feel right and leading to less regret.

The universe may "test" your commitment to intuition by offering an absurdly large incentive to ignore it. Saying no to a life-changing sum of money that feels wrong is a powerful act of choosing personal freedom over external validation.

Founders often start with strong intuition but lose it after achieving success. This occurs because long-held societal conditioning, which teaches individuals to distrust themselves and outsource authority to experts, resurfaces and mutes their inner voice.