When it comes to making important decisions in life, it’s always better to forgo analysis and just go with your gut feeling.
—Peter.
When it comes to making important decisions in life, it’s always better to forgo analysis and just go with your gut feeling.
—Peter.
Prosophos 
Can’t tell you much I too have wasted analyzing and not just going with my initial gut feeling.
Amen.
Does this mean you got rid of the 240 again?? :))
Does this mean you are dying to know again ?? :))
Actually, the best concept I’ve learned is that you do/use analysis to get to 70% of the information needed and let your gut decide the remaining crucial 30%. You get to that 70% really quickly, it’s the remaining 30% that is paralyzing and forces you to make your decision too late in the game on most cases.
Nice summation Rene!!
I don’t know… I would have put the percentages at 0% and 100%, respectively, for the really important decisions. But that’s just me.
You’re so right Peter… At the crossroads of life would rather to believe in feelings above all.
I knew you would understand.
too often, i have done things against my original gut feeling. for example : i had the Voiglander 35mm 1.2 which i loved. After reading a lot in the forums of people bashing it i traded it against a Summilux FLE, because everybody was raving about it. i have been regretting this move ever since.
I know what you mean. As nice as the 35 FLE is, the Voigtländer 1.2 renders in a beautiful fashion.
Although I understand where you are coming from, I think the generalisation can not be correct., as human intuition can be completely wrong in many cases. A combination of analysis and “gut feeling” has to be the right way… I suggest reading the following
book “Intuition: Its Powers and Perils” by Myers.
More often than not, most of us spend time in denial, trying to convince ourselves of that which we know deep down to be false.
I’d rather rely on my intuition for most important things, and risk being fantastically wrong sometimes, rather than live a safe life, full of lies.
Yes, Peter! Very true. As we lived in such a world that our Intuition is suppressed, we really need to come back to the basics and connect to our mind & soul. It is not about right vs wrong anymore & so is life. It is about living life to the fullness with your heart.
“safe life full of lies”… now who would want that? Well put, Peter.
If analysis is based on objective facts, I do not understand how it can lead to a life full of lies… You must to have something very specific in mind, which I can not follow. I actually find it very interesting how others immediately agree with you, without even having knowledge of what you are talking about. Such generalisations can lead people to massive mistakes. I do a job where I have to learn to overcome my “intuition” and “emotions” in order to be able to be able to be effective. Even pilots learn to ignore their “intuitive reactions” and learn to trust the instruments in order to fly safe.
By the way, I am not trying to be negative, I am just trying to understand what you mean. For example I would be very scared if I went to a doctor for an important intervention and he/she told me that he/she will use intuition and not logical analysis to cure me…
There is a place for analysis and a place for intuition. I still believe we need both.
Sorry I took so much space in your comments. I know that really this is a space to share your thoughts, I hope you do not mind a bit of a dialogue.
Peter, you are right. If intuition were as respected as it should be in our society, we wouldn’t even get to the point of having these kinds of discussions. 🙂 There is so much to say that I’m not even going to start.