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When can you “trust your gut”?

May 3, 2016

I teach problem-solving in my courses and preach that intuition is a good thing – not flying by the seat of your pants — but rather, sub-consciously tapping into your cognitive storehouse of education, experiences and emotions.

The more you learn, the more you practice and the more you discipline yourself mentally … the better you get as a problem-solver.

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Digging deeper, I came across an interesting article in Inc., positing that intuition is evident in 4 distinct types of “thinking preferences” which are naturally intuitive in different ways…

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Trust your intuition, ladies …

September 17, 2012

According to a study reported in LiveScience, a bride’s cold feet at the wedding altar is a strong predictor of divorce.

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When researchers asked the newlyweds, “Were you ever uncertain or hesitant about getting married?”

  • 47% of husbands answered “yes,”
  • 38% of wives said “yes”

While men were more likely to have cold feet, their wives’ reservations better predicted future problems.

Newlywed wives who had doubts about getting married before their wedding were two-and-a-half times more likely to divorce four years later than wives without these doubts.

In 36 percent of couples, both partners said they had no doubts before the wedding, and of those, just 6 percent got divorced by the four-year mark.

Among couples in which the wife or both spouses reported premarital doubts, 20 percent got divorced.

“Do the doubts  go away when you have a mortgage and two kids? Don’t count on that.”

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