Why it’s good to doubt yourself a little bit

When you rely too much on your eyes…the rest of your senses will decay and they will cease to be sharp and reliable tools of assessment. In the same way, when you rely too much on ONLY your mind to form an opinion about everything in this world. Then at some point, your intuition and instincts can only decay and they too will cease to be sharp and reliable tools of life.

It is only when we understand that both our intuition and instincts have taken billions of years to evolve that we can begin to appreciate these are not life tools that we should regard as lower than intellect….they are in fact complimentary and often interchangeable in managing ourselves and others and I invaluable in the art of decision making. Often when we rely exclusively on the intellect, our mind is proned to mind flooding. Mind flooding is a term that I had to come out with to graphically describe how the mind can be overwhelmed by a torrent of data till it becomes useless. It is only when we begin to still the ceaseless chatter in our mind can we begin to hear our inner voice……Give it a try.