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When To Trust Your Gut And When Not To
When your gut tells you that you want to do something, it often speaks from somewhere deep down.
It is your subconscious desires, the emotions that you usually hide, or some sense of knowing that you try to ignore.
Your gut feeling is often your initial, unfiltered response.
Anything that happens after that is your mind trying to tell you that it does not make sense, advising you against it because of dangers 1, 2 or 3, and your reasoning coming into play.
Usually this means excuses upon excuses pile up.
Remember that your mind is mainly focused on your survival.
As such it tries to keep you from expending energy and to stay within the safest and most comfortable places possible.
If you expand upon this idea you would expand to at least twice your size and never come even close to doing anything requiring effort or that makes you leave your comfort zone.
Sometimes, it does protect you from harm, but most of the times your reasoning will keep you lazy and living a boring life.
Your gut feeling, however, is what comes from a deeper, unfiltered level, only drawing from your personality to show you a path.
