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There are things our gut knows long before our intellect catches on. Every day, all day, an intelligent agent is sending us messages.
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Do not trust your instincts. Obey them. What is, is. And what is must be acted upon.
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Obeying our instincts and offering them up to a colleague or loved one allow both of us to know things we could not know otherwise.
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As human beings, we have instincts that tell us how someone feels about us even if they’re not being explicit.
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When people have a true sense of urgency around a big strategic opportunity, they instinctively look for something they can do each day to push the enterprise…
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We tend to overplay our hand, so to speak, but as negotiators we must control this instinct while letting it blossom in our adversary.
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When we dedicate ourselves to a plan and it isn’t going as we hoped, our first instinct isn’t usually to rethink it.
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As a species that can accomplish more in groups than as individuals, we need to have the instinct to know whom to trust.
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…if your instincts suggest that a ’10X’ improvement could make [a] capability exciting or threatening, you may very well be looking at the beginning of what is going to be a strategic inflection point.
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…when dealing with emerging trends, you may very well have to go against rational extrapolation of data and rely instead on anecdotal observations and your instincts.
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