Decision-making with guts

How often have you failed to trust your gut instinct, only to wish you had followed it? Personally, I can think of many occasions where I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right but couldn’t put my finger on the evidence to support the feeling, only to be subsequently proved correct. We use our instinct and intuition in many facets of our lives. It may be one thing to do so in your personal life – but perhaps quite another to use it at work? Many people may feel that intuition has little or no place in business, that decisions should be based on cold, hard facts rather than on trusting your gut feeling. But there is increasing evidence that intuition is more than merely a feeling. Many scientists now believe that it is, in fact, the result of our brains piecing together information and experiences to come to different, and less obvious solutions and conclusions.