Don't Trust Your Gut: Respect It
Today is the day after a very full weekend of NLP training. In the world of NLP and self development, lots of people will tell you to "trust your gut," as if we all know all the right answers but somehow fail to listen to ourselves. © Can Stock Photo / lkeskinen My training is a little different. I teach people to respect their gut. Your gut is a good teacher. Good teachers expect you to listen to what they say (it's based on expertise developed over time) and then to question it. A good teacher expects you to test what they teach. Your "gut" will sometimes provide you with good counsel, and sometimes it will mislead you because the experience that has shaped your 'gut' reaction is not typical of the situation you're in now. Your gut can be wrong. You know this. There are times in all our lives when we listened to our gut and really wish we had thought things through instead. Most of the processing power of your mind/brain/body system is ...