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What role should instinct play in major decisions?

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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews

Near-verbatim recurring Academy prompt about judgment under pressure.

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Cheryl Strayed Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
What I’ve really learned in my 43 years is that the body does not lie; the body actually tells you what’s right and wrong. If you get a sinking feeling in your stomach or a heavy heart about something, you shouldn’t do it; and if you get a lifting, light feeling in your body, you should.
Recorded Tina Essmaker, The Great Discontent, 10 July 2012 source ↗
Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
But the thing I think that thrust me possibly into the public consciousness, I had just been elected Bishop of Lesotho. I had gone there to become bishop and I went for a retreat. I don’t know — I mean, I don’t know what happened but it just seemed like God was saying to me, “You’ve got to write a letter to the Prime Minister.” And the letter wrote itself.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Leon Panetta Attorney and politician; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense
Now, part of that is the Jesuits at Santa Clara, who taught me about right and wrong. But part of it was just that gut feeling.
Recorded Leadership in War and Peace, Academy of Achievement, 14 September 2017 source ↗
David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter
Intuition? They say intuition is sort of feeling and intellect going at the same time. It’s a knowingness. As I always say, it’s knowing when something isn’t quite correct and then knowing a way to make it correct. And intuition is, I always say, the number one tool for the artist, I think the number one tool for people in business, perhaps the number one tool for human beings. Knowing how to do something, how to make it feel correct for you.
Recorded Meya Bekele, Maharishi University of Management commencement Q&A, TIME, 27 June 2016 source ↗

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