We’re taught to trust logic. To analyze, calculate, weigh pros and cons, and wait until everything makes sense on paper. Logic is praised as maturity, as intelligence, as the “right” way to make decisions. And don’t get me wrong—logic has its place. It helps us plan, organize, and avoid obvious mistakes. But when logic takes over completely, it often doesn’t lead to clarity. It leads to paralysis.
The mind wants proof. It wants timelines, guarantees, and certainty before it will allow you to move. The problem is, life doesn’t work like that. The most important decisions rarely come with full information. Love, career changes, walking away, starting over—none of those arrive with a spreadsheet that tells you you’re safe. So the mind keeps looping, overthinking every possibility, convincing you to wait just a little longer. And that waiting can quietly turn into years of being stuck.
Instinct works differently. It doesn’t argue or explain itself. It nudges. It pulls. It whispers, this feels right or something here is off long before you can articulate why. Many people mistake instinct for impulse or emotion, but it’s not the same thing. Instinct is built from lived experience. From patterns you’ve seen before. From truths your body and nervous system recognize even when your mind hasn’t caught up yet.
Think about how many times you’ve ignored that feeling. Stayed longer than you should have. Said yes when everything in you said no. Chose what looked good on the surface instead of what felt aligned. And later—sometimes much later—you realized your gut knew all along. Regret, more often than not, is just delayed intuition.
Trusting your instinct can feel risky, even reckless. Especially if you’ve been taught to doubt yourself or rely on external validation. But ignoring it comes with its own cost. It disconnects you from yourself. It keeps you living choices that never fully fit, wondering why nothing feels quite right.
This doesn’t mean you abandon logic entirely. Thinking things through matters. Reflection matters. But logic should support instinct, not silence it. Use your mind to plan the steps, not to talk yourself out of what you already know. When the moment comes, trust the signal that doesn’t need permission or approval.
That quiet knowing has guided people out of dangerous situations, away from the wrong paths, and toward lives that actually feel like their own. It won’t always make sense immediately—but neither do the most meaningful things at first.
Sometimes the most logical thing you can do is listen to the part of you that already knows.
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