How do you make decisions?
Do you overthink everything?
Do you examine all the evidence and data with a fine toothcomb?
Or do you rely on intuition?
This article from Harvard Business Review might well make you think with your stomach, which has been described as the 'second brain', with 100 million neurons lining your digestive tract!
Do you overthink everything?
Do you examine all the evidence and data with a fine toothcomb?
Or do you rely on intuition?
This article from Harvard Business Review might well make you think with your stomach, which has been described as the 'second brain', with 100 million neurons lining your digestive tract!
And what do the biases in the thought patterns of the individual then have on the decisions and actions? What if the person is risk averse or highly risk tolerant? How will that affect the business decisions?
I hope(!) i am more calculating than simply 'going with the gut' feeling.... but perhaps I am more risk averse than the next person and so it's my intuition not to proceed!
An interesting dichotomy that perhaps we will never be able to resolve :)
I also believe that gut instinct isn't just the gut, but a very complex calculation carried out by your consciousness that evaluates at high speed all sensory information allowing you to make that gut instinct decision, and it is that calculation that in a split second goes from being gut instinct to an analytical decision. Everything that you learn, past experiences will impact upon that ability to trust gut instinct or not, but I don't think it should be any less trusted than other form of decision making.
You could talk for hours on this subject and get quite deep, before you know it you are talking about separate subjects, human consciousness, what is it, how does it work, feelings, and human psychology, all of which makes us who we are, how we make decisions, how we act.
And I have to admit I love the debates that lead me down different paths, especially when it gives me cause for further learning :)