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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Recorded François Ozon said elsewhere, not written here
No. You don't have to have rules. If you have rules—you know in cinema you have to be very pragmatic.

GrouchoReviews, 19 June 2006 source ↗

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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 ↗
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 ↗
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
I've participated in the hiring of maybe 5,000-plus people in my life. So I take it very seriously. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut.
Recorded Betsy Morris, Fortune interview, Kona, Hawaii, March 2008 source ↗
Hiroshi Mikitani Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
As an entrepreneur, I am the sort of person who prefers to understand things in an intuitive way and make top-down decisions. I have previously referred to the process by which I make decisions as a game of catch between my left and right brain.
Recorded Rakuten Today, 14 June 2016 source ↗

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