How to Use Your Intuition as a Superpower - Dr Tara Swart - #990

What do you mean when you talk about trusting our instincts? I think it's it's a a return to something quite primal and physical. So I think in in this modern world, we've we we overthink everything, we try to rationalize everything. we prize logic above anything else. And I'm I'm sort of talking about using intuition as well as logic.

Why do you think it is that we are laying at the feet or why why is it that we're dispensing with sort of the wisdom that comes from instinct? If it's something that is sort of more ingrained? Why is that being pushed to a side? So I think it it goes back to when the outer cortex of our brain grew from being a sliver around the limbic system, which is the size of uh your clenched fist. And that's when we could articulate speech and we could like plan better for the future.

And So then we sort of prized those things more than the primal instincts that we had relied on before. And then if you fast forward to much more recently, until about 30 years ago, we didn't have sophisticated scanning technology that could actually show us things like how emotions and intuition work in the brain. So it just, I think, felt safer to rely on something like logic that makes more sense. And then if you also add in the rise of technology, it feels like it's counterintuitive, but I actually think this is where intuition and emotion and creativity

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