Tag: intuition
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Stop and Think: How Discipline Helps Avoid Costly Mistakes
My observations consistently confirm that most mistakes people make don’t come from ignorance — they come from not pausing to think. People usually have the knowledge, experience, and intuition they need. What they lack is the discipline to stop and use them. Pressure, habit, ego, urgency, money, and distraction conspire to replace reflection with reaction.…
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Introspectionism Reconsidered: Perception, Presence, and the Inner Work of Leadership
Introspectionism is often dismissed as an outdated psychological approach—too subjective, too imprecise, too unreliable to withstand modern scientific standards. Historically, that criticism is fair. As a formal method, introspection failed because inner experience cannot be standardized, replicated, or externally verified with consistency. But leadership, perception, and human judgment do not operate in standardized environments either.…
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Understanding the Conflict of ‘Should’ vs. Self Discovery
Why do these conflicts between what we do and should do exist? The word “should” is at the root of the problem. ✨ Psychoanalyst Karen Horney pointed out that we all need to learn to differentiate from the unhealthy “shoulds” we are socialized with vs. our actual self-determination. She proposed that we all have “real”…
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Why Trusting Instincts Leads to Success
Instinct is a marvel that when trusted, empowers us all. It’s a potent, inherent asset we all possess and can unleash into the world. In the animal kingdom, instinct is a cornerstone of survival and safety: Animals don’t debate against it. Humans, too, are endowed with instincts—arguably to a greater degree. However, in our case,…